I’m watching the Lunar eclipse tonight, on live stream T__T. The Lunar eclipse isn’t visible in the middle east but is visible in all America, some parts of Europe and in the far east. I’m planning to stay up all night to watch this divine phenomenon but the problem is I have class tomorrow at 9 a.m so maybe I’ll sleep just a little bit and set the alarm clock. I really don’t want to miss it~
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc#utm_campaigne=synclickback&source=http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/lunar_eclipse.html&medium=6539981
“You have the Earth blocking the direct sunlight, but all around the outside edge of the Earth is like a lens that will bend sunlight forward onto the moon,” said Bruce McCurdy, who will work Monday night — weather permitting — at the Telus World of Science’s observatory in Edmonton.
“So the moon, instead of being bright and white, will be quite dim and something in the sunset spectrum of colours — orange to even brick-red in some cases.”
At the start of the eclipse, Earth’s shadow will appear as a dark-red bite at the edge of the lunar disc. Over the course of the next 72 minutes, the moon will appear to be consumed by the shadow. The eclipse will be its most vivid at that point — about 2:40 a.m ET — with the moon appearing as a dim orange-red disc as sunlight is refracted through the Earth’s atmosphere to give the moon its unusual hue.
