Blood On The Moon

Apparently there will be a full Lunar Eclipse tonight (best seen from the east coast but visible from all over Australia).

The eclipse is supposed to start at 7pm (AEST) and start totality at 7.50pm (AEST).

The Earth will be between the sun and the moon tonight, casting a "shadow" across the moon. Only small red ray's from the sun will be able to penetrate the outer of the Earths atmosphere making it around the Earth and catching on the moon, this will turn it to a red colour. If conditions are good tonight it may even turn a deep blood red colour!

Make sure you get out and have a look.. it's not to late, and should be amazing.. last time this happened was 7 years ago and it's not expected to happen again for another 3 years.

sweet ill be showing my kids cheers for that xx

killa! yeah will show my daughter that too - as long as she doesnt start howling lol!!!!

hell yeah sounds sweet!

niiiiice!!

for those of you who dont know dicovery is doing a live stream of the eclipse so if you cant see it or anything check other discovery site (I cant find it right now was reading it before)

wow sounds awesome!!!

http://www.discoverychannelasia.com/eclipse/

Well I just went outside...Most of the moon is a reddish colour

Pretty cool.

I've seen enough

just checked myself starting to get nice and red

looks awsome, didnt think it was gonna be gonna be that obvious with the naked eye

i've probably missed it but my housemate told me about it! well i guess i'll have to wait 3yrs till the next one anyone get any photos?

eryn if u go outside now u can probably catch it

It's still happening...

ARRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!



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Thank ana just saw it then. i tired to take a photo but my camera isn't good enough lol ah well

yer i just went outside then, its still getting redder

should be around till 10 - my daughter was running around the backyard looking at it and laughing her head off!

doh! maybe not - just looked outside and the eclipse is starting to pass already!

This post has been edited by 455Pontiac: Aug 28 2007, 09:56 PM

just went outside and its not red anymore

i'm going out for a look now



yup its back to normal now i saw it just before though and it was 2/3 red looked pretty cool..

This post has been edited by BOOSTING: Aug 28 2007, 10:51 PM

it was pretty cool.

good catching up with you paul on friday

saw it, it was pretty cool!!!

my kids thoug it was wicked they loved it

It was amazing.. i got to see it half covered and full red too! then when the eclipse passed the moon looked so bright and white!

thanks again for giving us the heads up on this! It looked great - and to see it for a final time this morning was cool

Ace was trying to tell me that the moon was red because there's red dust on the moon.

What a tool.

If there was red dust on the moon it'd be red all the time!

maybe its special moon dust time

and yeah it was awesome... like a dark reddy brown...

now I wanna see a blue moon

I think Ace has been sniffing too much moon dust

moon dust sounds hot

Yer, like fairy dust....But better!

Did anyone get any good pics??

yeah was funny I checked the site about half hour or so before it started and it was that clogged with people trying to open it it just wouldnt load... but



that site has some goodish stuff on it.. screensaver!

i took some photos of the moon. not great photos, and i didnt know where my tripod was so i just put the camera on top of the bin, but here we are any way..




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there wicked shots

seconded!! I like the shot where the moon is red...

the eclipse was awesome.. was just driving along and noticed the moon was disappearing...

it's amazing seeing just little things like that and they instantly brighten up your day/night..