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Date: 30 Aug 2007 13:56:06
From: TBerk
Subject: Man, I missed the Lunar Eclipse
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And here all I saw was a few shots on the next day's news programs.
It seems (while I am responsible for keeping up on things myself)
there should have been a great deal more publicity around this thing
prior to-
but then again it's hard to sell something that happens for free, out
of doors and overhead all over.
Still, I lament the greying out of the night sky, the dumbing down of
the next door neighbor, and the distancing of the natural environment
going on all around us.
TBerk
scurry, scurry little rats, we must run the race!
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Date: 01 Sep 2007 08:38:19
From: goodnigh
Subject: Re: Man, I missed the Lunar Eclipse
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You will get a third chance in February.
The event was on the front page of my local small
town newspaper. The eclipse was spectacular :)
"TBerk" <bayareaberk@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:1188507366.911206.80470@r23g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
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> And here all I saw was a few shots on the next day's news programs.
>
> It seems (while I am responsible for keeping up on things myself)
> there should have been a great deal more publicity around this thing
> prior to-
>
> but then again it's hard to sell something that happens for free, out
> of doors and overhead all over.
>
> Still, I lament the greying out of the night sky, the dumbing down of
> the next door neighbor, and the distancing of the natural environment
> going on all around us.
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> TBerk
> scurry, scurry little rats, we must run the race!
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Date: 31 Aug 2007 10:16:41
From: laura halliday
Subject: Re: Man, I missed the Lunar Eclipse
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On Aug 30, 8:56 pm, TBerk <bayareab...@yahoo.com > wrote:
> And here all I saw was a few shots on the next day's news programs.
>
> It seems (while I am responsible for keeping up on things myself)
> there should have been a great deal more publicity around this thing
> prior to-
>
> but then again it's hard to sell something that happens for free, out
> of doors and overhead all over.
>
> Still, I lament the greying out of the night sky, the dumbing down of
> the next door neighbor, and the distancing of the natural environment
> going on all around us.
>
> TBerk
> scurry, scurry little rats, we must run the race!
While there was extensive coverage in the specialist media,
there was just about zero coverage anywhere else here in
Vancouver.
I suspect that totality at 0300 local time might have had
something to do with it. The last lunar eclipse here
(28 October 2004) was in the early evening, and the local
media went nuts.
It was a pretty good eclipse, despite the haze.
Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Non sequitur. Your ACKS are
Grid: CN89mg uncoordinated."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Nomad the Network Engineer
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Date: 31 Aug 2007 07:27:03
From: Rich
Subject: Re: Man, I missed the Lunar Eclipse
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On Aug 30, 4:56 pm, TBerk <bayareab...@yahoo.com > wrote:
> And here all I saw was a few shots on the next day's news programs.
>
> It seems (while I am responsible for keeping up on things myself)
> there should have been a great deal more publicity around this thing
> prior to-
>
> but then again it's hard to sell something that happens for free, out
> of doors and overhead all over.
>
> Still, I lament the greying out of the night sky, the dumbing down of
> the next door neighbor, and the distancing of the natural environment
> going on all around us.
>
> TBerk
> scurry, scurry little rats, we must run the race!
Maybe if astronomy clubs that are supposedly in-part dedicating to
public education (RASC, are you listening?) would develop
relationships with news organizations, the spread of information about
transient but eye-catching events would be better?
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Date: 30 Aug 2007 17:37:56
From: canopus56
Subject: Re: Man, I missed the Lunar Eclipse
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On Aug 30, 2:56 pm, TBerk <bayareab...@yahoo.com > wrote:
<snip all >
North America, the next eclipse is on Feb. 21, 2008:
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2008Feb21T.GIF
Then there is something of drought until 2011.
Date UTC - Type - Time UTC Begins
2008-Feb-20 T 17:37
2009-Feb-09 N 05:39
2009-Jul-07 N 01:38
2010-Jun-26 P 01:57
2010-Dec-20 T 22:29
2011-Dec-10 T 04:34
N=Penumbral
P=Partial
T=Total
Local eclipse calendar applet
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/JSEX/JSEX-index.html
Mark your calendar.
- Canopus56
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Date: 30 Aug 2007 18:18:27
From: William Hamblen
Subject: Re: Man, I missed the Lunar Eclipse
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:56:06 -0700, TBerk <bayareaberk@yahoo.com >
wrote:
>And here all I saw was a few shots on the next day's news programs.
I knew about it. It isn't all that hard to keep up with this sort of
thing. I even got up to see it and was rewarded with a view. I'd
expected to be clouded out.
Bud
--
The night is just the shadow of the Earth.
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Date: 30 Aug 2007 15:23:57
From: Chris L Peterson
Subject: Re: Man, I missed the Lunar Eclipse
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:56:06 -0700, TBerk <bayareaberk@yahoo.com > wrote:
>It seems (while I am responsible for keeping up on things myself)
>there should have been a great deal more publicity around this thing
>prior to-
Not sure where you were. I saw information about it all over the place.
Of course, there was lots of discussion in many astro forums, and also
crossover forums like SpaceWeather and APOD. Judging from what I saw on
Google News in the week before, most major (and even minor) newspapers
also had advance coverage. There may have been even more coverage than
usual because the event happened at about the same time as the infamous
"two moons" Mars urban myth.
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com
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