Michael,
According to the Acton web page, it’s clear right now. Tomorrow is supposed to be mostly cloudy, with clearing on Thursday. With luck you might be able to watch the lunar eclipse Wednesday night.
Out here in the west, it will be visible at dusk, but in the eastern US, you’ll see it around 10 pm.
–rakkity
jennifer
They’re saying that it’s going to be cloudy, even overcast, tonight in the NorthEast. What’s the weather going to be in Boulder?
jennifer
Today APOD had a rather unusual way to look an a lunar eclipse. Rakkity, I assume the eclipse over Westminster Abbey is not your original photo … right?
rakkity
Here in Boulder the sun is shining warmly through a thin haze. If it stays like this our view of the eclipse may be rather mystical, possibly interesting photographically.
I stole that Westminster Abbey shot from AP (Sang Tan). You can see it on several sites, in particular from here.
rakkity
The blog seems to be in a time warp. My first inputs weren’t accepted until I submitted a 2nd one.
Jen
Oh my God. It’s beautiful. Imagine this was a couple centuries ago and not knowing what was happening to your moon. It’s enough to make you invent a God or two.
michael
Couldn’t they have scheduled this thing in the summer?
How lucky are we? Nary a cloud in the sky!
el Kib
If I’d’a known Mikey would be posting to-the-minute pix, I’d’a stayed inside and stayed warm …. WOW that was fantastic! My old Edmund Astroscan hasn’t enlarged quite so fabulous an event in its life. Clear skies — NOT a New England tradition around celestial events …
jennifer
C’mon, it wasn’t cold enough to miss first-person viewing! Certainly not cold enough to miss viewing with Edmund A.
How did we get so lucky with the sky?
rakkity
Right now Boulder’s sun is shining strongly through a thin haze. It’s rather peculiar actually. A warming sun in a distinctly non-cerulean sky. If it stays this way, we may see the eclipse, and it might even be pretty, but not your iconic view. My son Patrick says it’s snowing in MD, but he’s going to look anyway.
I stole that Westminster Abbey eclipse shot from Associated Press. You can find it on many sites, such as
this one. They don’t give credit to the photographer, unfortunately, and the site says it’s on Tuesday, not Wednesday!
That APOD shot is interesting. Not a hard one to reproduce, given a dark spot, if you know where to point your camera.