I Miss the Sun August 29, 2007
Oh I long for the good old days when the sun beat down warmly on my face and the sunflowers sparkled.
Woe is me.
The Lunar Eclipse: Brought to You by the Earth’s Rotation and My F*ed Up Sleep Schedule August 29, 2007
As some of you may or may not know, last night we were privy to an awesome cosmic phenomenon, a total lunar eclipse, which began at 4:51 this morning. Now normally, if someone had told me of this wondrous event, I would have said ‘Cool, but screw getting up to see it, I’ll look at the pictures on the net when I get up’. Seeing as though daytime and I aren’t really seeing eye to eye right now I decided to make lemonade out of my nocturnal lemons and watch the eclipse. I also took some pictures which I’ll show you now, but you don’t really deserve them cuz you were too lazy to get up and see it for yourselves. Here we go.
This picture was taken at around midnight, four hours before the eclipse was to take place.
And now for her closeup. Radiant.
Oooooh, it’s starting, crack out the popcorn. Astronomers predicted it would start at 4:51am but I can attest that it started a few minutes earlier, at 4:48. Those astronomers can’t do anything right.
And a closeup.
This was taken a few minutes later, it’s one of my favorites. The eclipse hadn’t progressed very far but the moon was covered in clouds so it made for a nice picture.
Here it is again just a few minutes later after the clouds had passed.
We’ve made some progress. The moon is looking distinctly orange and is about halfway eclipsed.
I love the orange look.
From further away. Looks like a planet in deep space.
The camera didn’t really pick up what I was actually seeing. During the entire eclipse you could see the complete moon, which looked really orange, and the non-eclipsed part which was more white-gray. This is closer to what it looked like, minus the fuzziness.
It’s almost there!!!
Ooooh, looks very Mission to Mars
The End. Complete Eclipse. It was beautiful.
