I happened to be in a car on the way back from the grocery store during the eclipse...I didn't recognize it for what it was at the time, but I did notice that the moon looked different from usual (somewhat orange-tinged). Very cool!<br><br>I'm in Santa Clara, CA by the way.<br><br>- Anne<br><br><b><i>Amara Graps <amara@amara.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> .. was glorious!<br><br>Here: An amateur German astronomy group with professional pictures,<br>"Live" from the event:<br>http://www.vds-astro.de/astroaktuell/2007/Mondfinsternis/live/Mondfinsternis-live.htm<br><br>My small experiment with a "Canon Powershot" digital camera (heh!)<br>http://amara.com/luneclipse/<br><br>Compare an image from the folks with the professional equipment:<br>http://www.vds-astro.de/astroaktuell/2007/Mondfinsternis/image/IMG_3047B.jpg<br><br>with an image from my handy digital that is
not designed for such photography<br>http://amara.com/luneclipse/IMG_5289_cropped.jpg<br><br>Ok, you laugh, but at least the lunar maria is correct, true?<br><br>Samantha, now I know what all of those settings do. :-)<br><br>Did any of you see it? The professional and amateur astronomy groups are<br>always aware about things like this, but there was no indication that<br>anyone in my town was aware about it. I almost never watch TV, so I<br>don't know if it was a TV news item.<br><br>In total I've seen four lunar eclipses from my flat in my town, 4 x<br>4 hours = 16 hours of eclipsing, with people walking around below my<br>apartment building, and with 100 other apartments with terraces looking<br>in the same direction as mine, and I never saw a single person looking<br>UP or from their terraces at the glorious spectacle of the eclipsed Moon<br>occurring over their heads. How difficult can it be to look at the Moon?<br>I'm a misfit here.<br><br>Amara<br><br>--
<br><br>Amara Graps, PhD www.amara.com<br>INAF Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), Roma, ITALIA<br>Associate Research Scientist, Planetary Science Institute (PSI), Tucson<br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<br></blockquote><br><BR><BR>"Like and equal are not the same thing at all!"<br>- Meg Murry, "A Wrinkle In Time"<p>
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