Farmers' Almanac ---During the early evening hours this coming Saturday, November 8, there will hang in the eastern sky a mottled, coppery globe - our Moon - completely immersed for a while in the long, tapering cone of shadow cast out into space by our Earth. If the weather is clear, many parts of America will have a ringside seat for one of nature's most beautiful spectacles: A Total Eclipse of the Moon.
---Weather prospects for Saturday night for the Northeast suggest mainly clear, brisk and chilly weather. It would afford local viewers their first clear view of a total lunar eclipse in ten years.
---Unlike a Total Eclipse of the Sun, which often requires a long journey to inaccessible parts of the globe, those of the Moon can be observed from one's own backyard. The passage of the Moon through the Earth's shadow is equally visible from all places where the Moon is above the horizon when the eclipse is in progress. Saturday's event will be visible across much of North and South America, as well as Europe, Africa and western Asia - a potential viewing audience of nearly three billion people!
---The Moon is expected to take more than 3* hours to pass completely through the Earth's dark inner shadow, called the umbra.
---"There is nothing complicated about how to view this celestial
spectacle," notes Joe Rao, who has observed eleven previous total lunar eclipses. "All you'll need to watch this ancient phenomenon are your eyes, but binoculars or a telescope will give a much nicer view."

The Night of The Red Moon - Best Viewing Times

-----The most noticeable part of this eclipse will begin at 6:33 p.m., EST, when a small scallop of darkness will appear on the Moon's upper left edge. The eclipse will become total at 8:06 p.m. For the next 25 minutes the Moon will be entirely immersed in the shadow. Yet it will not disappear from sight. It should, in fact, appear to turn a coppery red color, a change caused by the Earth's atmosphere bending or refracting sunlight into the shadow. According to Rao: "The Earth's shadow is cone-shaped and extends out into space for some 866,000 miles, so sunlight will be strained through a sort of 'double sunset,' all around the rim of the Earth, into its shadow and then onto the Moon." Rao also predicts that especially in binoculars and telescopes, the Moon will appear strikingly three-dimensional, like a " . . . weirdly illuminated ball hanging in space."
---The Moon will pass entirely out of the Earth's umbra late Saturday evening, at 10:05 p.m. Officially, the eclipse actually begins at 5:15 p.m.,
when the Moon begins to enter the faint outer portion, or penumbra, of the Earth's shadow. It will leave the penumbra at 11:22 p.m. The penumbra, however, is all but invisible to the eye until the Moon becomes deeply immersed in it.
---Sharp-eyed viewers may get their first glimpse of the penumbra as a faint "smudge" on the upper left part of the Moon's disk at or around 6:14 p.m. The last evidence of the penumbra should vanish at, or around 10:24 p.m.

Mi just hear pon de news seh mi miss it and haffi wait anodda year fi see it again :-( grrrrr.
Mi did wah watch it wid mi feline friend ^ but maybe next year sweetie.

I saw it earlier tonight. Was really neat because I never saw one before. We just happened to have clear skies and it was cool to look at.

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At about 8:30pm here in NY, the moon turned orangy red with a narrow bright white border all around it . It was breathtakingly beautiful.

Everyone on the streets was looking up at it...even the dogs these people were walking were looking...I tell the truth! It was so funny to watch them

If only I had a tripod...I'd have awesome pics of it now.
Gotta put that at the top of my shopping list.

Here is a pic that come very close to what I saw last night.

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Damn I can't beleive I miss this. How the hell did I allow that happen. Hey kathryn, thanks for the 'simulated shots'

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I was at work busy with some guest and for that reason I missed what could have been such a spectacular event.

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