Amazing Spectacle: Total Lunar Eclipse Monday Night

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For a few hours on the night of Dec. 20 to Dec. 21, the attention of tens of millions of people will be drawn skyward, where the mottled, coppery globe of our moon will hang completely immersed in the long, tapering cone of shadow cast out into space by our Earth. If the weather is clear, favorably placed skywatchers will have a view of one of nature’s most beautiful spectacles: a total eclipse of the moon.

news.yahoo.com/s/space/20101217/sc_space/amazingspectacletotallunareclipsemondaynight

Right before Christmas…How exciting while we prepare for the coming of the Lord! I’ve never seen one. (A lunar eclipse that is) 🙂
 
Charlotte408 said:
For a few hours on the night of Dec. 20 to Dec. 21, the attention of tens of millions of people will be drawn skyward, where the mottled, coppery globe of our moon will hang completely immersed in the long, tapering cone of shadow cast out into space by our Earth. If the weather is clear, favorably placed skywatchers will have a view of one of nature’s most beautiful spectacles: a total eclipse of the moon.

news.yahoo.com/s/space/20101217/sc_space/amazingspectacletotallunareclipsemondaynight

Right before Christmas…How exciting while we prepare for the coming of the Lord! I’ve never seen one. (A lunar eclipse that is) 🙂
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Just my luck… Nashville is calling for an overcast throughout the night! Oh well… guess that I’ll have to wait for the next one. 😦
 
Charlotte408 said:
For a few hours on the night of Dec. 20 to Dec. 21, the attention of tens of millions of people will be drawn skyward, where the mottled, coppery globe of our moon will hang completely immersed in the long, tapering cone of shadow cast out into space by our Earth. If the weather is clear, favorably placed skywatchers will have a view of one of nature’s most beautiful spectacles: a total eclipse of the moon.

news.yahoo.com/s/space/20101217/sc_space/amazingspectacletotallunareclipsemondaynight

Right before Christmas…How exciting while we prepare for the coming of the Lord! I’ve never seen one. (A lunar eclipse that is) 🙂
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Sharp-eyed viewers may get their first glimpse of the penumbra as a faint smudge on the left part of the moon’s disk at or around 6:15 UT (on Dec. 21) which corresponds to 1:15 a.m. Eastern Time or 10:15 p.m. Pacific Time (on Dec. 20). The most noticeable part of this eclipse will come when the moon begins to enter the Earth’s dark inner shadow (called the umbra). A small scallop of darkness will begin to appear on the moon’s left edge at 6:33 UT (on Dec. 21) corresponding to 1:33 a.m. EST or 10:33 p.m. PST (on Dec. 20).
The moon is expected to take 3 hours and 28 minutes to pass completely through the umbra.
The total phase of the eclipse will last 72 minutes beginning at 7:41 UT (on Dec. 21), corresponding to 2:41 a.m. EST or 11:41 p.m. PST (on Dec. 20).
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Hey Kimmie, I’m sure you heard about all that 2012 doomsday stuff - I personally don’t buy into it…and I’m only looking forward to this because I havent ever seen a lunar eclipse…

but just so I know what I’m looking at, will this be the ‘line-up’ they are talking about? You know where supposedly all the planets and the sun etc line up in 2012?

Cuz if thats the case imma take a picture! lol or at least watch for sure…
 
Check it out:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/mocospace-pic/19579/19579/orig/photoalbum_195782973_user35724368-1.gif

Ok so this is a ‘lunar eclipse’, so that means that those on the one side of the earth facing the moon will simply see the moon vanish as the earths shadow covers it up, right…

so what do you think the people on the other side of the earth are going to see?? a solar eclipse? Or are these other stars and planets not big eno-

well of course their not bigger than the sun but do you think it will blot out part of it or anything??

So cool… 😃
 
Tietjen said:
Just my luck… Nashville is calling for an overcast throughout the night! Oh well… guess that I’ll have to wait for the next one. 😦
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Most likely overcast in my neck of the woods too, but I will go outside just in case it clears up. Additionally, the last time the moon was this high up in the sky during a lunar eclipse was the year 419 A.D. So this is a rare event indeed.

Ishii
 
Charlotte408 said:
but just so I know what I’m looking at, will this be the ‘line-up’ they are talking about? You know where supposedly all the planets and the sun etc line up in 2012?
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Are you sure you didn’t answer your own question there? 😉
 
Sorry, but am I the only one who thinks “bad sign” when I hear “blood red moon”?

Not to be superstitious, but I do believe Scripture is quite clear that the Lord uses natural signs–perhaps including those that can be scientifically predicted–to give His people signs every now and then.

Remember Fatima’s prophecies of the “sign in the sky” that appeared in 1938?

And if my memory serves me, I think there was a blood red moon prior to the fall of Constantinople…

I will be out to see the spectacle tonight (hoping it’s a clear sky), but I will be praying for our world as I do!
 
I am SO CRAZY LMBO I was thinking tonight was that whole 2012 thing!!??!! HA AHA!

I was just sitting here talking about it with a friend and mid-conversation stopped myself because once I said it outloud realized what a total dingbat I am! *What in the world…
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I bought Starbucks coffee…to make at home…instead of the regular Foldgers…that may have something to do with it. LOL, I’m so sorry…Now I’ll go and read all the messages people no doubt posted calling me out on it :o:o:o
 
gregY said:
Sorry, but am I the only one who thinks “bad sign” when I hear “blood red moon”?

Not to be superstitious, but I do believe Scripture is quite clear that the Lord uses natural signs–perhaps including those that can be scientifically predicted–to give His people signs every now and then.

Remember Fatima’s prophecies of the “sign in the sky” that appeared in 1938?

And if my memory serves me, I think there was a blood red moon prior to the fall of Constantinople…

I will be out to see the spectacle tonight (hoping it’s a clear sky), but I will be praying for our world as I do!
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With regard to your comment about the possibility that the eclipse could be a “sign” from God, I would point out that I have seen other lunar eclipses before that were “blood red” and I don’t remember anything seriously bad happening after those events. I have also observed the sun as looking “blood red” against an almost white sky so as to resemble the Japanese flag - and this was in Japan! I think to read too much into this eclipse and other meteorological events is to be a little superstitious. But you never know…

Ishii
 
Cool! Full!

Now, off to Adoration!

God Bless you.
+Peace On Earth, Good Will Toward Men.
Love, Dawn
 
Shoot! I was up for the big event!..

Went to bed around 8. The moon was so bright, it cast shadows…Clear night!

4 hour eclipse.

2:20 am—couldn’t find the moon. Drove in to Adoration-22 miles, heading West, and do you think I saw the moon once? Clouds skipping by…Over the top of hills-nothing around for miles. Sheez.

6:00 am—arriving home after Adoration and the Donut Store (Tuesdays are Donut Tuesday around here)—and the moon’s shining bright.

Must’ve been a Pollock eclipse.
(I can say that-I’m a Pollock).

Geez…

God Bless you.
+Peace On Earth, Good Will Toward Men.
Love, Dawn
 
gregY said:
Sorry, but am I the only one who thinks “bad sign” when I hear “blood red moon”?

Not to be superstitious, but I do believe Scripture is quite clear that the Lord uses natural signs–perhaps including those that can be scientifically predicted–to give His people signs every now and then.

Remember Fatima’s prophecies of the “sign in the sky” that appeared in 1938?

And if my memory serves me, I think there was a blood red moon prior to the fall of Constantinople…

I will be out to see the spectacle tonight (hoping it’s a clear sky), but I will be praying for our world as I do!
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Total lunar eclipses are very frequently red and they are not that rare. There have been/will be 6 total lunar eclipses between 2007 and the end of 2012.

Prepare yourself so that you are ready for the Lord. You don’t need to look for signs.

Peace

Tim
 
Sadly, us Seattlites rarely get to enjoy such a spectacle. And last night’s moisture was the rule, once again spoiling the opportunity. 😦
 
DawnInTexas said:
Shoot! I was up for the big event!..

Went to bed around 8. The moon was so bright, it cast shadows…Clear night!

4 hour eclipse.

2:20 am—couldn’t find the moon. Drove in to Adoration-22 miles, heading West, and do you think I saw the moon once? Clouds skipping by…Over the top of hills-nothing around for miles. Sheez.

6:00 am—arriving home after Adoration and the Donut Store (Tuesdays are Donut Tuesday around here)—and the moon’s shining bright.

Must’ve been a Pollock eclipse.
(I can say that-I’m a Pollock).

Geez…

God Bless you.
+Peace On Earth, Good Will Toward Men.
Love, Dawn
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Whatever part of Texas you were in, I wish I could have been there instead of where I live. I went outside and it did seem like an unusually bright night, but the sky was completely overcast! :mad:
 
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