Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010, will be the first time since 1638, and only the second time since year 1, that the winter solstice date coincides with a total lunar eclipse.
Totality in Humboldt County (PST) starts at 11:41 Monday night, ending at 12:53 Tuesday morning.
Please do whatever it takes for a clear sky…
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Celestia and Digital Universe are good, free alternatives for cloudy skies… a planetarium on your desktop.
Rapture.
Hopefully we will be able to see this. Been checking the cloud cover every once in a while. Some people believe that everything that happens close to a solstice is a disaster. Are we going to have a big earthquake, flood or just see the moon covered? Probably just a dark time during the eclipse. I don’t believe everything causes a disaster. Just hope we can see it from Hum County. Maybe everyone outside in the middle of the night can just wave at the moon or sky and know we were all out there whether we saw it or not but we were there anyway.
The skies cleared up just in time to wake the kids and watch the darkest moments for about 20 minutes.
That was impressive! And to think that it was clearly visible from Eureka between rain showers.
It was truly amazing how it cleared up just enough to watch it between storms