TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON TONIGHT

shakiboo · Post by **shakiboo** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:48 pm

Wish I"d have thought to post this earlier, is anyone watching it? Luckily I can see it from my desk by just looking up! Too cold to stand outside tonight to watch, Won't be another one (full eclipse) till 2010.

Liz Crouthers · Post by **Liz Crouthers** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:21 pm

When is it . I'm looking!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:27 pm

I've been checking every 15 minutes since 9:15.
It''s still going on. Our clouds went away just in time.

The last one, Harry, Stef and myself enjoyed in Fall River, October (2004?) around the 7th inning of the Red Sox World Series!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:33 pm

It's been a day of big space events! The eclipse and The shuttle landed safely this morning and the military shot that falling satellite- tho they say they won't know until tomorrow if they destroyed the full fuel tank- which was the main objective.
They said on the local news that landing the shuttle today was a priority no matter what- because they really wanted a clear safe shot at the satellite.

shakiboo · Post by **shakiboo** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:20 am

Oh LIz hope you got to see it! It was starting when I posted about it. We have clear skies here and it was beautiful. Saturn was really bright on one side of it and Ragulus was shining bright on another side. I'm on the west side of Illinois so it should have been visible to you about the same time I was watching it. Kat, I wondered why the shuttle was coming back early, never even connected the two things. But I guess it's better safe then sorry!

Liz Crouthers · Post by **Liz Crouthers** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:52 am

well, it was too hard to see here but my roommate got pictures of it from a friend. So I saw it in a way

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 1:49 am

Well, it wasn't exactly early- I only know that (I think I know that)- because there's already another shuttle on the pad!
But they did say that there was no chance hardly at all that they would not make the shuttle come home when it did. They said maybemaybemaybe it might have waited one more day if it had to, but they reallyreallyreally did not want to wait.
Since the weather was good they got lucky.