Eclipse Tonight

Aha, the chance we've been waiting for....

...get the net ready......

I'm going to climb up on my roof. I want to get a closer view.

be careful, it would be a shame if you slipped and spilled your drink

Isn't that how that career Aggie freshman discovered a new constellation, Reveille MCMLXVII?

Fig 1. Artist's conception of elusive new constellation.

Billybob: "Fell from a deer blind he did, poachin' like he done, and DANG! Thar it was!"

Fig. 2 Reenactment of The Discovery That Shook College Station.

Celebrated Reville MCMLXVII discoverer Dillon 'Dill' Pickle (right) together with his thirteenth academic advisor, Billybob, on the steps of the new A&M Observatory Beer Garden.

Pickle was awarded a new pair of shitkickers from Cavender's Boot City and an all-night shopping spree at Cabella's. After closin' time.

Why how dare you insult such a hallowed place and center of academic research, and practical engineering as Texas A&M? I suppose you must be Colocentric? You have a wooly stinking pot-smoking Buffalo as a mascot? Buffalo are no match for a Sharps rifle!!! My advice to you, is back off.

Hook 'em, Horns!

HAY! watch it i am an AGGIEE.

Don't forget your flash if you plan on taking pictures. :-)

I know of two people who've actually tried doing that very thing.

One guy took pictures of the contrail from a rocket launched from Vandenberg AFB, 400 miles away, and another photographer with a $15,000 camera taking pix of the Shuttle piggybacked on a 747, pix taken from behind a chain-link fence as the pair touched-down at Stapleton Internat'l at dusk. He took very many closeup and detailed pix of a chain-link fence just off Quebec Street in Denver. Equipment does not make the man.

I won't need a flash. I'll be really close. It's a two story house.

Those two storys sound pretty tall.

There are clear skies in parts of the UK and a beautiful full moon. It's just about to happen....

<edit> Ooooh! A bit of high Cirrus!

As the Ty-D-Bol family said, "Yup, it looks like another full moon tonight!"

--Gary Larson cartoon

I got out my welder's glass so I could watch it without hurting my eyeballs.
I was hoping to see the Lunar Corona at mid-eclipse.

But the weather is not cooperating here in the Southeastern US.

Best to view the Lunar Corona in Deep IR. Somewhere on CR4 was mention made of graphene IR contact lenses?

Gamma rays are a good second choice. The Moon is actually brighter than the Sun at gamma wavelengths. Truly.

This is an international forum fellas.......

I have to wait till October....dang!

Anyhow the skies will be clearer then. Pissing rain here now.

The eclipse was visible from Canada. Technically, Canada is a nation. They have sports teams, and everything.

Yes, they do. Nice place, Canada. Speaking of sports teams, I know Mexico had an Olympic Swim Team at one time, but they're all over here now.

Did you take that?

What did you use and what were the settings?

you can see the credit in the lower left.........all I could see last night was a larger than normal white moon until the clouds moved in

Ah.

I woke up at 01:30 last night due a pain in my lower right part of my abdomen? It couldn't have been one of you guys poking me, so it must have been my wife poking my voodoo doll. Therefore, I got up, woke up the dogs, went out to smoke, and woke her up in the process. It was definitely a full moon, for all I heard the remainder of the night was her howling about what I horrible person I am. She is actually the demented one, not me.

I used to sleep with my Sharps, too (them Buffalo sure can be a real nuisance, lemme tell ya, but wives are worse*). Dang near shot my junk off.

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* glad my exes don't live in Texas, 'cept for one. I miss her but my aim is improving.

Full moons have that effect on some people...

In the contest between staying up and watching it, and going to bed, the bed won. Does any reader have some own-pictures, pretty-please?