I checked the times and it looks like we will be able to see it around 1:30am. I'm not thinking I'll be up at that time. I'd love to see it though.
My daughter and I are going to try to watch. I am searching for an electrical cord long enough to reach from my livingroom to the front porch so I can plug in my electric blanket lol..
We are going to watch it. I read somewhere that it's the first time (since 1638) that there has been a total eclipse, on the longest night of the year, visible in North America. LR
I think I'm going to let the girls stay up to watch it tonight. Anyone know what time it'll be? (Doesn't matter what time zone you use, I can just convert it lol)
I read that it will start at 1:30 AM (Eastern Time), with the total eclipse beginning at 2:41 AM and the best viewing around 3:15.
Oh, it'll be about 11:30 here then. Good, don't wanna mess with 2 little kids' sleep patterns too much, they'd either be really tired or really hyper tomorrow!
I would, except we are under quite a deluge right now and it's not expected to stop for another couple of days. I miss those clear California skies!!
If I'm up, I'll check for it, but we have a good deal of clouds in the sky. I hope they'll clear up in time...
It is clouding up something terrible here, but I'm going to try anyway! I'm going to take the video camera to try to show it to my girls too.
Just heard the forecast here. It's changed from this morning, and now they are saying we have 100% chance of full cloud cover.
I'm hoping I can get myself out of bed to see it around 3am ET. Once I'm asleep though, I usually become one with the bed and can not separate myself till morning forces me to drag the covers back and peel myself off the mattress. It is a painful process -- one that I do not wish to do twice in a 24 hour period. However, a glowing orange moon just might be worth it.
lol I told the kids we would wake them up if it looked good. But they were so tired after the light tour tonight I think it may take the full four hours the eclipse is going to last to get them to open their eyes
We are getting up around 2am CST and look at the sky regardless of weather conditions just to say we looked at it! I remember looking for Halley's Comet as a child just to say I saw it in the sky (it was there if I saw it or not! :lol: )
I'm going to try it, but dd just told me she has a sore throat and doesn't feel good. she probably doesn't need to be out in the cold in the middle of the night. I'm always up late anyway, so I'll see it. ds wants to stay up with me, so I'll have someone to snuggle with!
I interrupted a disturbing dream about a living blob that was a botched experiment in biomechanics. (Not sure what was in it, but I did recognize marshmellows in in make-up.) I think it probably represented me trying to fight my way out of bed. I managed to see the moon as it was just coming out of the shadow - a sliver a yellow and a whole lot of orange. It would have been neat to watch it come all the way out of the shadow, but while it was worth getting up for, it was not worth freezing to death for!
It was too cloudy here to even bother. Dd did wake up at 3 something (should have been in or close to completely eclipsed) and we did look outside. It was still sort of bright so I bet that was due to the clouds. We did go to the planeterium this weekend and saw a special star show on the lunar eclipse. That was fun. The neat thing is we just finished studying the moon in astronomy so it all fell together nicely.
100% cloud cover here. We all got up to look anyway. I had already been checking periodically, but never saw a thing over the course of several hours. It would have been perfect timing for dd11 who is in between units on the solar system and Earth. Shucks.
