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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: Justin Snyder on December 20, 2010, 11:43:32 pm

Title: Happy Winter Solstice
Post by: Justin Snyder on December 20, 2010, 11:43:32 pm
Happy Winter Solstice to everyone. This years solstice (tomorrow) coincides with a full moon and full lunar eclipse in North America. It hasn't happened in 456 year.
Title: Re: Happy Winter Solstice
Post by: JW_Halverson on December 20, 2010, 11:45:53 pm
And my birthday to boot!  This will be the only time this ever happens, because I sure as heck don't intend to stick around 400+ years for the next one. 
Title: Re: Happy Winter Solstice
Post by: gstoneberg on December 21, 2010, 12:24:18 am
Happy birthday my friend.  George
Title: Re: Happy Winter Solstice
Post by: sailordad on December 21, 2010, 12:38:37 am
ya HAPPY SOLSTICE ( i truly am a pagen at heart )

im ao bummed to
were having a major snow storm today/tonight/tomorrow
it so damn cloudy i wont even get to see the lunar eclipse(and being the nerd that i am that sucks )
Title: Re: Happy Winter Solstice
Post by: Justin Snyder on December 21, 2010, 01:00:55 am
ya HAPPY SOLSTICE ( i truly am a pagen at heart )

im ao bummed to
were having a major snow storm today/tonight/tomorrow
it so damn cloudy i wont even get to see the lunar eclipse(and being the nerd that i am that sucks )
I know what you mean. The wife, kids and I were planning an all nighter tonight but it has been raining for 4 days and wont stop for several more. No chance of seeing the moon here.
Title: Re: Happy Winter Solstice
Post by: medicinewheel on December 21, 2010, 03:51:10 am
Happy Winter Solstice to everyone. This years solstice (tomorrow) coincides with a full moon and full lunar eclipse in North America. It hasn't happened in 456 year.

Same here in Northern Europe.
All of it only hours apart.
Happy solstice to all of you!
Title: Re: Happy Winter Solstice
Post by: Pappy on December 21, 2010, 06:19:07 am
Not raining but very cloudy here so I guess I will have to wait and see the next one. ;) ;D ;D
Happy Birthday JW. hope it's a good one. :)
   Pappy
Title: Re: Happy Winter Solstice
Post by: hillbilly61 on December 21, 2010, 08:22:43 am
Happy Birthday JW ;)
Title: Re: Happy Winter Solstice
Post by: jamie on December 21, 2010, 10:18:40 am
right back at you. eclipse was nothing spectacular. stayed up for it being the dirt worshipping pagan i am.  ;D. what was cool was the incredible halo around the moon most of the night. wish i could of gotten pics.
Title: Re: Happy Winter Solstice
Post by: medicinewheel on December 21, 2010, 01:18:32 pm
Jamie, like this one? This photo I took December 08...
Title: Re: Happy Winter Solstice
Post by: JW_Halverson on December 21, 2010, 07:41:29 pm
I was up fletching arrows most of the nite because I couldn't sleep.  I went out every ten minutes or so to see how things were progressing.  When the umbra (I think that is what it is called) was about a quarter of the way across the moon you could see that it was brown from all the dust in the atmosphere.  I was bumping up the resolution by using my Nikon 12X binos to cut thru the foggy cover we had.  When it was 3/4 eclipsed the cloud cover moved in and hazed it over so bad I could no longer make out the mares and craters on the moon's surface.  From there on out, there was nothing to see, sorry - no pun intended.