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Date: 27 Aug 2007 16:48:44
From: G
Subject: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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So are gonna get up early? I slept in late like until 3pm or 1500. So I can
stay up all night long...
But clouds might ruin it for me...
--
G in Upstate S.C. USofA
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 21:31:00
From: rat ~( );>
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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On Aug 28, 9:30?pm, Esmail <ebonak_x...@hotmail.com > wrote:
> Florian wrote:
> >> Oh, that's neat. How much exposure time? 10-15 seconds?
>
> > Moon was 15 seconds. Orion was 60 seconds.
>
> I really like the Orion shot. I thought for sure with 60 seconds
> one might start to get trails, but I guess not. Very nice.
>
> Esmail
I went out to have a look at 4:30 AM local time, not much to report,
except to say that it was a very nice event.
rat
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 03:48:27
From: jamesd43081@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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Was rather nice from Central Ohio, only to totality though; got down
to the distant tree line by 6:10am.
Jim
On Aug 28, 3:59 am, br...@isi.edu (Brian Tung) wrote:
> G wrote:
> > So are gonna get up early? I slept in late like until 3pm or 1500. So I can
> > stay up all night long...
> > But clouds might ruin it for me...
>
> Nothing to set up really--I'm going to be observing mostly by binocs, I
> suspect.
>
> --
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 00:59:34
From: Brian Tung
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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G wrote:
> So are gonna get up early? I slept in late like until 3pm or 1500. So I can
> stay up all night long...
> But clouds might ruin it for me...
Nothing to set up really--I'm going to be observing mostly by binocs, I
suspect.
--
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Date: 27 Aug 2007 21:18:40
From: rat ~( );>
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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On Aug 27, 10:10?pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...@mchsi.com > wrote:
> G wrote:
> > So are gonna get up early? I slept in late like until 3pm or 1500. So I can
> > stay up all night long...
> > But clouds might ruin it for me...
>
> I'll be up--It's Clear!
> -Sam
I don't think I'll make it unless I wake up by accident.
Too bad, I love an eclipse, it's just at exactly the wrong time.
rat
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Date: 29 Aug 2007 01:57:07
From: Florian
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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> Too bad, I love an eclipse, it's just at exactly the wrong time.
Can something really be _exactly_ wrong? ;-)
.Florian
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 04:10:32
From: Sam Wormley
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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G wrote:
> So are gonna get up early? I slept in late like until 3pm or 1500. So I can
> stay up all night long...
> But clouds might ruin it for me...
>
>
I'll be up--It's Clear!
-Sam
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Date: 29 Aug 2007 01:59:07
From: Florian
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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My lame pic of the eclipse this morning...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fboyd/1258911976/
A more interesting pic looking east of Orion...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fboyd/1258911990/
.Florian
Palm Springs, Calif.
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Date: 29 Aug 2007 04:00:50
From: G
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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Not bad, not bad at all...
Don't see much star shift, but it's small. So it's hard to tell...
Oh, there is a little star shift, enabled Java to see it...
Was this just tripod and camera?.
"Florian" <star6@seeyouinthedark.com > wrote in message
news:Xns999AC12677223star6seeyouinthedark@66.250.146.128...
> My lame pic of the eclipse this morning...
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fboyd/1258911976/
>
> A more interesting pic looking east of Orion...
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fboyd/1258911990/
>
> .Florian
> Palm Springs, Calif.
>
>
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Date: 30 Aug 2007 02:58:22
From: Florian
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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> Was this just tripod and camera?.
Yes, that's all it was. ;-)
.Florian
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 20:38:14
From: Edward Erbeck
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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Florian
Nice pair of Pictures.
Crazy Ed
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 22:01:42
From: Esmail
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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Florian wrote:
> My lame pic of the eclipse this morning...
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fboyd/1258911976/
>
> A more interesting pic looking east of Orion...
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/fboyd/1258911990/
Oh, that's neat. How much exposure time? 10-15 seconds?
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Date: 29 Aug 2007 03:13:35
From: Florian
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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> Oh, that's neat. How much exposure time? 10-15 seconds?
Moon was 15 seconds. Orion was 60 seconds.
.Florian
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 23:30:58
From: Esmail
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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Florian wrote:
>> Oh, that's neat. How much exposure time? 10-15 seconds?
>
>
> Moon was 15 seconds. Orion was 60 seconds.
I really like the Orion shot. I thought for sure with 60 seconds
one might start to get trails, but I guess not. Very nice.
Esmail
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Date: 29 Aug 2007 07:23:36
From: Howard Lester
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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"Esmail" wrote
>> Moon was 15 seconds. Orion was 60 seconds.
> I really like the Orion shot. I thought for sure with 60 seconds
> one might start to get trails, but I guess not. Very nice.
Strange - even at a small scale I clearly see the stars trailing.
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Date: 29 Aug 2007 11:37:59
From: Esmail
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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Howard Lester wrote:
> "Esmail" wrote
>
>
>>> Moon was 15 seconds. Orion was 60 seconds.
>
>> I really like the Orion shot. I thought for sure with 60 seconds
>> one might start to get trails, but I guess not. Very nice.
>
> Strange - even at a small scale I clearly see the stars trailing.
hey, I'm officially approaching geezer'dom .. maybe I'll take
another look.
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Date: 29 Aug 2007 09:59:18
From: Howard Lester
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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"Esmail" wrote
>> Strange - even at a small scale I clearly see the stars trailing.
>
> hey, I'm officially approaching geezer'dom .. maybe I'll take
> another look.
Geezerdom?? You look like you're about 25!
:-)
Seriously, if you haven't ever taken short time exposures of constellations
such as this, you might not know what to look for. With a 50mm lens, you can
get about 15 seconds with no trails of stars at or near the celestial
equator. That shot (Florian's?) looks like it was taken with about a 35mm
lens [equiv. on a 35mm camera].
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Date: 30 Aug 2007 02:54:47
From: Florian
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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> Seriously, if you haven't ever taken short time exposures of
> constellations such as this, you might not know what to look for. With
> a 50mm lens, you can get about 15 seconds with no trails of stars at
> or near the celestial equator. That shot (Florian's?) looks like it
> was taken with about a 35mm lens [equiv. on a 35mm camera].
I think the trailing is fairly evident. The lens on the Panasonic FX01
zoomed all the way out is suppose to be equivalent to a 28mm on a
traditional 35mm camera. One reason i like the camera is for its wide lens.
.Florian
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Date: 29 Aug 2007 03:40:30
From: Sam Wormley
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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Esmail wrote:
> Florian wrote:
>>> Oh, that's neat. How much exposure time? 10-15 seconds?
>>
>>
>> Moon was 15 seconds. Orion was 60 seconds.
>
> I really like the Orion shot. I thought for sure with 60 seconds
> one might start to get trails, but I guess not. Very nice.
>
> Esmail
If one blows up the image there are a couple of pixels of trails
in the image--nice image.
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Date: 27 Aug 2007 18:51:07
From: Bill Becker
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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"G" <your@smart.net > wrote in message
news:13d6e4e83bct64f@news.supernews.com...
> So are gonna get up early? I slept in late like until 3pm or 1500. So I
> can stay up all night long...
> But clouds might ruin it for me...
>
>
I doubt I'll be setting up but I'm setting my alarm to check it out. Small
steps, small steps..
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Date: 27 Aug 2007 20:01:36
From: Marty
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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I'm a pathological nightowl. I'd have to put electrodes on my heart to
get up that early. Now if it was a transit of Venus or something...
Marty
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 06:01:08
From: Howard Lester
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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"Marty" wrote
> I'm a pathological nightowl. I'd have to put electrodes on my heart to
> get up that early. Now if it was a transit of Venus or something...
> Marty
I'd think it'd be pretty hard to see a transit of Venus at night....
Here in southern Arizona we had a rare clear monsoon-season morning, and the
moon looked great at mid-eclipse. I had the ED80 on it at 27x, and, well,
how about that.... ;-) There were a few stars around it in the field. I
went back to bed, but got up again at the time there was some blue on the
leading edge of the moon, looking through the window with 15x70's. Really
nice. The quality of the lighting and the dark maria made the moon look very
much like a sphere, rather than just a disk.
Howard
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 08:19:42
From: Jan Owen
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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"Howard Lester" <heylester@dakotacom.net > wrote in message
news:13d876ske8suf37@corp.supernews.com...
> "Marty" wrote
>
>> I'm a pathological nightowl. I'd have to put electrodes on my heart to
>> get up that early. Now if it was a transit of Venus or something...
>> Marty
>
> I'd think it'd be pretty hard to see a transit of Venus at night....
>
> Here in southern Arizona we had a rare clear monsoon-season morning, and
> the moon looked great at mid-eclipse. I had the ED80 on it at 27x, and,
> well, how about that.... ;-) There were a few stars around it in the
> field. I went back to bed, but got up again at the time there was some
> blue on the leading edge of the moon, looking through the window with
> 15x70's. Really nice. The quality of the lighting and the dark maria made
> the moon look very much like a sphere, rather than just a disk.
>
> Howard
Ed Erbeck posted an image on alt.binaries.pictures.astro that is EXACTLY how
it looked from here... I tried several shots with my camera, but none worth
saving... I just watched naked eye, and with 8X42 binoculars... Didn't
even get out the 11X80's... Couldn't get my wife out of bed to come look.
Couldn't take a decent photo. So Ed saved the day!!! Errrr... NIGHT!!!
I also took some time while things progressed for some binocular viewing of
Perseus, the Double Cluster (kinda' tiny in 8X42's), and surrounding areas,
the Pleiades, Orion, who was reclining atop the great light pollution dome
of Phoenix to the southeast, and various other things that swam into view,
but which I forget at the moment...
A short look (from just after 3:00AM, until just before 4:00, but still VERY
nice!!!
--
Jan Owen
To reach me directly, remove the Z, if one appears in my e-mail address...
Latitude: 33.6
Longitude: -112.3
http://community.webshots.com/user/janowen21
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 00:58:57
From: Brian Tung
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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Marty wrote:
> I'm a pathological nightowl.
There's something faintly comical about the Marty being a nightowl. :)
--
Brian Tung <brian@isi.edu >
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 13:04:44
From: Margo Schulter
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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Brian Tung <brian@isi.edu > wrote:
> Marty wrote:
>> I'm a pathological nightowl.
>
> There's something faintly comical about the Marty being a nightowl. :)
>
Hi, all, and maybe it's a question of wanting to see as many martys
(generic meaning) as possible, as opposed to only our own local
Marty which tends visually to preempt the others, for example those
in Sagittarius as we look toward the heart of our "island Martyverse."
Best,
Margo
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Date: 27 Aug 2007 19:19:07
From: Bill Becker
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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"Marty" <movac5@webtv.net > wrote in message
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> I'm a pathological nightowl. I'd have to put electrodes on my heart to
> get up that early. Now if it was a transit of Venus or something...
> Marty
>
I think I saw a pair in the local Wal-Mart Dolla bin. ;^)
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 00:47:15
From: John Nichols
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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"G" <your@smart.net > wrote in message
news:13d6e4e83bct64f@news.supernews.com...
> So are gonna get up early? I slept in late like until 3pm or 1500. So I
> can stay up all night long...
> But clouds might ruin it for me...
>
>
> --
>
I'm planning on getting up around 4-4:30, and driving out to my club's
observatory site, and watching it there, then driving to work.
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 19:36:20
From: John Nichols
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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"John Nichols" <bejay@worldnet.att.net > wrote in message
news:ngKAi.57066$ax1.30377@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>
> "G" <your@smart.net> wrote in message
> news:13d6e4e83bct64f@news.supernews.com...
>> So are gonna get up early? I slept in late like until 3pm or 1500. So I
>> can stay up all night long...
>> But clouds might ruin it for me...
>>
>>
>> --
>>
> I'm planning on getting up around 4-4:30, and driving out to my club's
> observatory site, and watching it there, then driving to work.
>
Got up at four, RACED 30 miles away to the observatory site, and watched
from just after five until 6:15 AM. At that point the sun was coming up and
it was becoming difficult to see, even in my 16x50 binoculars. I was hoping
to see more, but I also had a 50 mile drive to work ahead of me, so I left
about then.
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 14:18:01
From: Bill Owen
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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John Nichols wrote:
> Got up at four, RACED 30 miles away to the observatory site, and watched
> from just after five until 6:15 AM. At that point the sun was coming up and
> it was becoming difficult to see, even in my 16x50 binoculars. I was hoping
> to see more, but I also had a 50 mile drive to work ahead of me, so I left
> about then.
Got up at 1:50 PDT, put on my bathrobe, SAUNTERED outside to my front
lawn, where my 12.5 inch was sitting there waiting for me. My wife got
up too, and two of our friends showed up, and the four of us watched the
dragon eat the moon. At mid-eclipse we all got tired, our friends went
home, and we went to bed.
(A bit more to it than that. Once totality started and they got tired
of looking at the moon, I did show them M31 and the Double Cluster.)
A good eclipse. Not as dark as some I've seen (Dec 1963 and Jul 1982),
but somewhat difficult to judge. The central part of the umbra was
darker, of course, but it was also covering the northern hemisphere,
which has more maria. The outer part was significantly lighter -- I
could see the shadowed portion of the lunar limb in the telescope, even
at the onset of the umbral phase. Even with the unaided eye the
shadowed part was visible fairly early on. I'm going to guess L = 3 on
the Danjon scale.
No pictures. :-( I've got a nice old 35mm Canon and an adapter for
direct focus photography but I forgot to buy film. This is what happens
when the wife gets a digital camera for her birthday....
-- Bill Owen
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Date: 29 Aug 2007 01:20:38
From: John Nichols
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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"Bill Owen" <wmo@jpl.nasa.gov > wrote in message
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> John Nichols wrote:
>> Got up at four, RACED 30 miles away to the observatory site, and watched
>> from just after five until 6:15 AM. At that point the sun was coming up
>> and it was becoming difficult to see, even in my 16x50 binoculars. I was
>> hoping to see more, but I also had a 50 mile drive to work ahead of me,
>> so I left about then.
>
> Got up at 1:50 PDT, put on my bathrobe, SAUNTERED outside to my front
> lawn, where my 12.5 inch was sitting there waiting for me. My wife got up
> too, and two of our friends showed up, and the four of us watched the
> dragon eat the moon. At mid-eclipse we all got tired, our friends went
> home, and we went to bed.
>
<<snippage >>
I would have loved to do that. My house, however, is in a heavily light
polluted area, being one mile from a mall, five miles from the airport, and
situated directly across from I480. Plus trees that severely limit what can
seen to the northwest. My best shot was what I did this morning. :)
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 12:00:15
From: Llanzlan Klazmon the 15th
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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"G" <your@smart.net > wrote in news:13d6e4e83bct64f@news.supernews.com:
> So are gonna get up early? I slept in late like until 3pm or 1500. So I
> can stay up all night long...
> But clouds might ruin it for me...
>
>
It's in the evening for me. Weather looking a bit dodgy though.
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Date: 27 Aug 2007 22:41:14
From: Macro
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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On Aug 27, 3:48 pm, "G" <y...@smart.net > wrote:
> So are gonna get up early? I slept in late like until 3pm or 1500. So I can
> stay up all night long...
> But clouds might ruin it for me...
>
> --
>
> G in Upstate S.C. USofA
My area is clear! But I have classes and wouldn't be able to get ready
because if I get up then I'll want to see Mars and then it will go on
and on.
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Date: 27 Aug 2007 17:52:25
From: Esmail
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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G wrote:
> So are gonna get up early? I slept in late like until 3pm or 1500. So I can
> stay up all night long...
> But clouds might ruin it for me...
I plan on getting up early here, upstate NY, to see the moon set.
Esmail
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Date: 28 Aug 2007 00:15:25
From: Florian
Subject: Re: ASTRO: Who is setting up for tonight's Moon Eclispe?...
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> So are gonna get up early? I slept in late like until 3pm or 1500.
I couldn't sleep until 3pm if my life depended on it! ;-)
I set my cellphone alarm to go off at 3am tonight so i'll go out and look
at the moon then.
.Florian
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