8/27/2007

Lunar eclipse August 28

There's going to be a full lunar eclipse (the kind you can look at without worrying about your eyes . . .) early tomorrow (8/28) morning. It will be visible (assuming the clouds cooperate) from 4:52 - 6:22 am in the Chicago area.
I'll be waking up sometime in there -- I think I'll take a look!


Update: Though I didn't see anything, several at the Adler Planetarium did! Here's a picture from the Sun-Times eclipse gallery!


6 comments:

traci said...

i thought that it was only going to be visible from the west cost. do you think i'll be able to see it from the big d? i love the adler planetarium. i miss it now that i'm in detroit, but detroit has some good things, like, um, the blues and hot dogs oh wait. chicago has those things too. can you tell i miss chicago? anyway, back to the eclipse. do you think i'll be able to see it?

Kirk Moore said...

I think you should be able to see it from 5:52 - 7:22 am your time. It's visible all across North and South America.

Peter said...

Cloudy skies here this morning. Bummer.

Kirk Moore said...

Forgot to go out until it was too late here . . . bummer that was my fault.

Bud said...

Kirk
Bobbie (the furry one ) made sure i got to see it. It was neat when I first saw it all you could see of the moon was a small piece on the bottom and the gone.

johny b said...

i did not know about it until it was time for me to go to bed. i had no plan to get up in the middle of the night to watch it, but ended up waking up and watched the entire thing. not a cloud in the sky in seattle... and it was a great view from the roof top deck of the place where i am staying.

i will hopefully posts some pictures of it when my boxes arrive from the east coast sometime later this week.