For those of you who haven't heard on Tuesday, August 28th there shall be a lunar eclipse (a total lunar eclipse at that). So starting at 4:51 eastern time the moon will gain a redish glow to it. The next eclipse after that won't be until Feburary 2008.
Time for a little lesson (if you don't already know this):
A lunar eclipse occurs when the earth moves infront of the sun making it so that the suns rays are not able to reach the moon which puts the moon in darkness. This occurance makes the moon appear to glow red.
It shall be something different to see.
2 comments:
Yay! I'm not the only one interested in the lunar eclipse! I got my friends interested too, so I'm dragging as many with me to stay up (or get up) and watch it, possibly film it.
My parents are going to look at us like we are crazy, sitting out on the church grass across the street filming the eclipse (which will be partly attributed to the fact that a lot of the time I don't get up till noon. What can I say? I'm a teenager!)
Now that it will be checked off my list, some of the things left are Solar Eclipse and the Aurora Borealis and the Aurora Australis. :) Oh and see penguins in real life (can you believe I've never seen one?)
WAHH I missed it! *dies* I have to watch it... NOOOOO
Heh, I am obsessed with the moon... perhaps because my real name refers to the moon?
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