Posted on 05/15/2022 5:04:22 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
We have rotten luck with just about ANY celestial event. Eclipses, meteor showers, you name it.
It wouldn’t bother me quite as much tonight if we’d gotten some rain with these clouds.
I sincerely do take pleasure in it. I’m having the time of my life honoring the museum’s mission statement ...... “to honor our military and educate the younger generations.” Seeing people’s faces light up when they see the different artifacts on display - civilians and veterans alike - and doing what I can to breathe a little life into them is what it’s all about. And it’s a learning experience for me as well. I learn little bits here and there from the veterans and I eat that up.
I have a pretty good idea of what you mean. Other veterans have said the same thing to me over the years.
I’ll graciously accept your thanks if you’ll accept mine. Deal? :-)
Witnessed my first and only total lunar eclipse under the most atmospherically perfect conditions in the dry Judean desert of Israel (not even light pollution), back in ‘86, ‘87? The best thing about it was that it was a total surprise. Had no idea it was coming. I had a video camera at hand and captured the entire event from, “What’s happening?” to, “Wow was that unreal???”
The live event was awesome, as watching it is actually participating in it! The video was more boring than watching a boulder erode.
If you’ve never actually witnessed one I strongly encourage you to do so. You’ve got three more chances to do so in the next three months. MAKE EVERY EFFORT...G-D WILL DO THE REST.
DEAL!
I’ve seen several eclipses over the years but have missed several too. Like tonight. It really is much better ‘live’ than on video, like the live stream I’ve been watching.
I never got to see it in desert climes, like you did, but here on the farm, there’s very little light pollution.
I’ve only found one more lunar eclipse listed online, in November. There are super moons the next three months, though, and I like those a lot. I can walk around the farm and not need a flashlight ....... provided it isn’t cloudy. LOL
I can see the sliver of the moon again now but it’s fuzzy. Just enough cloud cover to keep us from seeing the eclipse while it was in totality. :-(
I might have misread or misunderstood what I read. I’ll have to check soon, but for tonight, I’ve got to bed down.
SLEEP WELL.
Well, that stinks...but at least you get to see something. It was pretty just as the moon was a tiny wedge. The rest of it was reddish. My picture wasn’t focused very well so I deleted it. LOL!
It’s quite possible. There are a lot of things about the moon and it starts running together.
Get a good night’s sleep.
I still have a few hours before pillow time since I’m back on regular “vampire” schedule .... til next weekend. LOL
Hope you and your friend with the engine scanner, code reader make quick work of finding and fixing the problem.
It does stink. I haven’t been able to get a shot of a blood moon since I got the Nikon with the great zoom. I have a couple of partial eclipses with it but it’s not the same.
I’m really irked at the moment because now I can see the “face” on the moon. The clouds have cleared that much. NOT FAIR!! LOL
I need to head outside for a few to hose the ton of pollen off the car. It needs to be done and it’s comfortable outside. Just stinky since there wasn’t any rain to deal with that poo stench.
Me too, thank you
Good evening/morning, Mooch...it is warm and getting warmer. 60+ for at least the next week, then higher...that is getting hot. No air conditioning, but I do have fans.
Right now I want a really good cleansing rain to wash away the winter and spring dust and dirt.
Hope your air conditioning is in good working order.
Oh...thanks for the YouTube reminder. I can check there later.
How's everyone doing this morning?
No rain? I was hoping you’d get some and it was smelling better there. Have fun de-pollening the car. It is a nasty bunch of stuff for sure.
They were calling it a “rainbow” moon. Not sure why. I should have gotten out the telescope to look through, but it’s so darn heavy! I love that it’s a very good quality one that hubby got me, but I really wish it were more accessible.
You can at least watch replays and see how pretty it was while in totality. Still not the same as standing outside and seeing it overhead.
I just came in from hosing the pollen off the car and really need to hose myself to cool off. The sky is clear now! GRRRRRRRRRRR Still hazy enough that stars aren’t visible but the moon being so bright has something to do with that.
Howdy, E.G.C. ((HUGZ))
Did you and Gizmo have a larger crowd to deal with at the lake yesterday or were you lucky again?
Nope. Nary a drop here. A large batch ran across the west end of the state earlier tonight but it missed us as it moved south. We really need some rain now because it’s getting dusty-dry.
The car is blue again. LOL It had some pollen on it last week from the trees around here but it got loaded at the museum this weekend. I hope those trees calm down by next weekend.
Who was calling it a rainbow moon? I never heard anyone say that when talking about it the past couple of days.
It was a beautiful shade of red on the livestream I watched.
I hear ya on heavy telescopes. The one Hubby bought for me several years ago weighs 100 pounds with the tripod. I can’t begin to move it and have only used it a couple of times. Not recently. Hubby won’t move it outside any more.
For moon viewing, that little Nikon’s zoom works really well but there was no reason to grab it tonight. *sigh*
It's supposed to be a little bit "cooler" today if you call 85 cool but then it goes back up to near 100 tomorrow:
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