As I write this article, I am approximately 43 minutes away from witnessing the first glimpse of the lunar eclipse we are about to see this year. I was not aware of this at all and I got surprised about it and am now excitingly waiting for it to happen. I don’t recall ever viewing one in my life before, perhaps as a kid but who remembers.
Lunar Eclipse, I’ll use my knowledge to define it, it is when Earth is the center of the Moon and the Sun. The sun sends arrays of light which jump off earth and go over the moon, giving the moon colors (red) :D. I do not know so much but I know it will happen tonight.
Updates: Ok, I left the article and the lunar eclipse happened and is still happening for that matter. It is bright red, I want to take some pictures but am not capable because my cameras batteries are defective, my phone takes bad pictures. It is amazing. I waited an hour to see this.
The moon is fully orangish/red like the color of Mercury. ALSO the moon standing still has formed a Triangle shape with 2 other stars. The other two stars are Saturn and Mercury/Venus I’m not fully sure. If you get the chance go see it as this is the last Lunar Eclipse until 2010. It is an amazing view.
Some believe you are to not look at the moon directly when it is at its fulliest, it damages your eyes…but I don’t see why because I am fine after looking at it :).
Also some of my friends that I told about it today gave me the reaction “oh..” “oh..okay..cool.” “nice…anyways”. I believe there is some religious beliefs behind this, anyone care to share what their views or why lunar eclipses might be bad (except for the obvious reasons please).
Navid
