Saturday, December 18, 2010

Lunar-tic behavior...

...as a rare occurrence occurs in the wee hours of Monday Night and Tuesday morning: The winter solstice coincides with a total eclipse of the Moon for the first time in 456 years. Wiccans everywhere have perked up their ears....

All y'all can get the details here.

It has been a few years since the last eclipse I (or anyone else) saw....


Not such a swell shot, but I was making do with the equipment I had.

The next regular eclipse will occur sometime in 2014 if I remember correctly. Maybe I'll have a camera, lens and tripod capable of delivering quality moon-photos by then!

That doesn't mean I won't give it another try Monday night. Not promising any shots will appear here...the delete key may get to 'em before you do!

5 comments:

aka mag said...

I plan on sleeping through the event. 3:30ish A.M. If I plan on getting up for it I won't...so I'm going the opposite route.

Never know what may happen.

MrScribbler said...

I dunno who you could ask about rescheduling the eclipse, but it might be worth a try....

Inconvenient hour for such a thing, I must say!

Anonymous said...

I've already got my alarm set on my phone for tomorrow night. My tripod is ready as is my camera. I'll post photos. Hope to see yours!

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John0 Juanderlust said...

Don't expect to catch it here--socal is overcast, rainy and windy non-stop the last few days and supposed t continue through wednesday. I fear the sky is falling