Still looking up...
Nov. 19th, 2002 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpDrew called a few minutes ago, asking if there would be any Leonid action tonight. I said I didn't know, and that last night was supposed to be the peak of the shower, which lasts for several days. In the end, he decided he wasn't going to stay up for them.
Then I mentioned the penumbral lunar eclipse.
Which got me to looking, at 6:46 pm local time, for the times of the eclipse.
Would you believe: 6:46 pm local time was the middle of the eclipse? Drew didn't, and neither did I, as we looked casually at the Moon. Then I went outside and took another good, hard look at it.
No, there's no telltale shadow on the Moon's surface, nor is the full moon red or orange. But... it is noticeably dimmer than it was last night. I will go out again in a couple of hours - after I finish the translation, which I'm about halfway done with as I type this - to confirm.
Cheers...
Then I mentioned the penumbral lunar eclipse.
Which got me to looking, at 6:46 pm local time, for the times of the eclipse.
Would you believe: 6:46 pm local time was the middle of the eclipse? Drew didn't, and neither did I, as we looked casually at the Moon. Then I went outside and took another good, hard look at it.
No, there's no telltale shadow on the Moon's surface, nor is the full moon red or orange. But... it is noticeably dimmer than it was last night. I will go out again in a couple of hours - after I finish the translation, which I'm about halfway done with as I type this - to confirm.
Cheers...
