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The Lunar Eclipse Right now

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zerospinskier
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It just started, you guys better be watching! It just began. It won't really be cool until like 2:52am pacific then it will get dope and red for like 90 min. Its gonna be sick! Expecially for the west coast. We will get it totally covered; "totality." The ground will look like its glowing and shit too. Watching the moon will be like seeing every sunset on earth at once. I'm psyced!
Aug 28 2007 4:28AM
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Fish_Sandwich.
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Fuck man, I'm in WA state so I guess it will be pretty cool.  But I dunno if  I wanna stay up for this.
Aug 28 2007 4:28AM
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zerospinskier
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I'm am insomniac anyway so im happy. Its not like I was planning on going to bed before 4 anyway.
Aug 28 2007 4:30AM
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Fish_Sandwich.
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haha ya me too but for some reason all the ibprofeun I've had today is making me tired.  Otherwise I usually go to bed around 2-4.  Lastnight it was like 4:15 or something.  But I gotta work tomorrow at 11 so I dunno.
Aug 28 2007 4:32AM
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purplejumpsuit
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i hurd it didnt start till about 3 or something
but yes im staying up to watch it from the west coast!
Aug 28 2007 4:33AM
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zerospinskier
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Well yeah, it just started, "techincally." You won't really notice it till later. It's just the faint earth edges right now. Hence the, "it wont be cool till 2:52am" thing.
Aug 28 2007 4:37AM
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purplejumpsuit
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aight,
well i'll be watching when it start's getting 'cool' then haha
Aug 28 2007 4:40AM
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Fish_Sandwich.
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Fuck it, I'm going to bed.  L8r guys, hope it's cool.
Aug 28 2007 4:44AM
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zerospinskier
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hell ya! its starting bitches! im outside with my laptop right now!
Aug 28 2007 5:15AM
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zerospinskier
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fuck this is tight. i cant believe no one else is watching
Aug 28 2007 5:30AM
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dave44
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yo, where are you. im in vancouver, bc. half the moon is like dark red
Aug 28 2007 5:49AM
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zerospinskier
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Yeah, im in Washington and im getting the same thing. We have the best veiw on this side of America
Aug 28 2007 5:53AM
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dave44
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whats it supposed to look like at 2.50 am? i duno if i should stay up another 10 mins lol.
Aug 28 2007 5:57AM
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TheMoostafian
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damn this is gay


i went outside and couldnt see the fucking moon

pissed me off
Aug 28 2007 5:57AM
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zerospinskier
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^ Dude you should be able to see it. Its red with now with liek a very small sliver of white.
Aug 28 2007 6:04AM
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TheMoostafian
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i mean like from my house

i cannot see the moon

at wherever it happens to be in the sky
Aug 28 2007 6:05AM
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PacificRimJob
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DUUUUDE! ITS LOOKING SOO RED RIGHT NOW!
Aug 28 2007 6:06AM
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dave44
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Ah, gayness, my shitty old DSC W1 crashed in manual mode. it loooks fucking sick righ now
Aug 28 2007 6:07AM
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PacificRimJob
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it looks like mars dude!~
Aug 28 2007 6:09AM
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PacificRimJob
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Oh shit you know what I just noticed?

Zerospin... like a year ago you posted a thread about you selling your ECLIPSE.

Just coincidental, but funny you started both threads about two different eclipses a year apart..
Aug 28 2007 6:11AM
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R.Fahey
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I just peeped that shit. I'm in SLC and it was a PERFECT night. Too bomb.
Aug 28 2007 6:11AM
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zerospinskier
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Shit that was scary. My laptop battery died. But I got an extention cord so were good now. Ya its almost totally covered. Its red and awesome. O yeah, and about selling my eclise, yeah im an eclipse guy i guess. I actually have another eclipse now too. haha
Aug 28 2007 6:15AM
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dave44
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holy friggin shit it looks like friggin mars right now, crazy shit. i wish my camera was friggin working, it broke in manual mode haha.. if i could find some binoculars i'd take photos on y phone thru them. looks cool, creepy in a way. kinda expecting a UFO to fly over my house rite now
Aug 28 2007 6:17AM
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PacificRimJob
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Yeah.. I noticed that and was like WTF does this guy just love eclipses of all kinds or something?
Aug 28 2007 6:20AM
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zerospinskier
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Dude ive been trying to get hte binoc thing to work but it wont. Its like too dark.
Aug 28 2007 6:21AM
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dave44
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anyone got photos?
Aug 28 2007 6:21AM
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PacificRimJob
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trying.. my stupid cam's lens wont work well with the telescope eyepiece
Aug 28 2007 6:22AM
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dave44
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Cheah. my cam friggin broke in manual mode, i was setting it for the low light. shitty old cam, but still okay. and then it BROKE. its lookin real sick right now [from vancouver]
Aug 28 2007 6:24AM
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PacificRimJob
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Yeah. From San Francisco I'm sure I'm seeing something pretty similar.

i swear, is it like glowing and stuff? or are my eyes just tricking me?
Aug 28 2007 6:26AM
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PacificRimJob
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Aug 28 2007 6:33AM
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PacificRimJob
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^^The best I could do with my crap for camera...
Aug 28 2007 6:34AM
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zerospinskier
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ya once it turned red my pics didnt work out. It was too dark and I only had a digi cam. And yes, it is glowing
Aug 28 2007 6:35AM
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dave44
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DATS FRIGGin sick. its completely disappeared from my view now. wait. no... its kinda back now... just. seriously i gotta look hard to find the moon

it was glowing real bright before... it was razy
Aug 28 2007 6:36AM
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PacificRimJob
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yeah.. as you can see.. when I still had some light, it was somewhat clear..

as soon as it became pretty much all red, it got wicked blurry.
Aug 28 2007 6:39AM
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dave44
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normally i dont stay up this late to watch shit like this... it aint my stuff but tonight was pretty cool.

i swear ive seen something like... a few years back, looking at the sunset, i wasnt sure if it was the moon or sun, but it was a crazy ass HUGE... i mean HUGE red/orange glowing ball. i could look directly at it, so i assumed it was the moon. any of you see this? it was def. a few years back. i was like... wtf? it was huge, i tell you. like, just by the horizon, real low and close. and wai, gimme a sec i think a guy s trying to break into a miata outside. he's been standng by the car for like 10 mins, by the door
Aug 28 2007 6:40AM
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zerospinskier
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Wow, I just came in from outside on the sidewalk with my laptop. Then I go to the window to check on the moon, and 5 MONSTER fuckin raccoons are just wonderin down the sidewalk like a fuckin gang. I coulda died if I was out there.
And WOW your shitty pictures and better than my shitty pictures. and yours looks differnet because the red worked its way from the upper left to the lower right. But nice pics
Aug 28 2007 6:41AM
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Steezy_Street
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OoOOO im in Sydney and the moons bright red atm
Aug 28 2007 6:42AM
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Holte
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it's kinda eerie with a faint red halo replacing the moon.
Aug 28 2007 6:43AM
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dave44
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dude, this guy i think is jacking a car. he stood by the side where the lock usually is for like 10 mins, hes finlly in, and he's now leaning into it for like.... 10 mins. trying to hotwire?

now he's taking photos of something.. another car's plate. he's not taking photos of the moon... o

ok.. nw he's driven off with the miata.

back on topic. moon's glowing again. crazy
Aug 28 2007 6:45AM
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PacificRimJob
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I'm using a Nikon D40 6.1 Mpx.

and it only looks that was cuz Its flipped from the telescope.
Aug 28 2007 6:48AM
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zerospinskier
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wow im an idiot
Aug 28 2007 6:53AM
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dave44
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any more photos? its glowing on the left side from my view.. madly.
Aug 28 2007 6:55AM
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mammothpunks
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just came in from shooting a time lapse of it. pretty sick.
Aug 28 2007 7:11AM
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mammothpunks
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i need a sharper lens. 4 second exposure probably wasn't helping.
Aug 28 2007 7:16AM
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dave44
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holy crap thats sick ass. this eclipse is lastin a while... i have no idea whatsoever about stars/eclipses and crap... how long they supposed to last?
Aug 28 2007 7:21AM
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jeff3617
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wow i wish i knew about this
Aug 28 2007 8:25AM
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FartBoy05
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pretty sick, anyone see the leonid meteor "storm" in like 2001. that was the crazyest shit ive ever seen.
Aug 28 2007 8:49AM
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mammothpunks
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here is the timelapse i threw together. fcp is pissing me off with the interlacing right now but ill fix it later.

http://media.nscdn.com/uploads/member/videos/1188306118lunerex.mov
Aug 28 2007 9:04AM
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dave44
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that second one is wicked cool
Aug 28 2007 9:07AM
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SirFryanator
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it was dope as fuck, but I stayed up till then so now I'm really tired.
Aug 28 2007 11:02AM
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dave44
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same. i dont feel like going to bed though... i dont feel that tired, but sort of yawning occasionally. physically i feel fine too, even after a training sesh today
Aug 28 2007 11:04AM
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