November/8/03 Eclipse!

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:21 pm

I was thinking the eclipse would be later at night but it was actually early at around 5:17PM so I missed it! Anyone get to see it?

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:25 pm

What do you mean? It's totality is supposed to be at 7:06 Central...

From CNN:

The eclipse reaches totality at 8:06 p.m. Saturday night, EST. That stage -- when the moon, Earth and sun are lined up precisely and the moon passes through the darkest part of Earth's shadow -- lasts just 24 minutes.

Looking outside, I'm reconfirmed...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:32 pm

Weird, I read something that said it's at 5:15.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/2...7m8eclipse.html

But it does say that it continues at 7:04 p.m but it's past 7 here so I missed it anyway.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:34 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: Weird, I read something that said it's at 5:15.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/2...7m8eclipse.html

But it does say that it continues at 7:04 p.m but it's past 7 here so I missed it anyway.

San Diego is two hours behind me and three hours behind you.

EDIT: That's silly of them not to include the time zone...

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:38 pm

Now that I think of it, I probably got news from the wrong time zone since I just went and looked and sure enough it's covered! Looks very cool!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:39 pm

takahita_tsukino wrote:
EDIT: That's silly of them not to include the time zone...

Yeah I was thinking the same. I often forget about time zones when viewing news online.

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:42 pm

Red Squirrel wrote: Looks very cool!

I don't see much yet... Almost all of it is covered up, but I don't see much red. I can't wait until I can though.

I like watching this sort of stuff.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 7:47 pm

Yeah when I went it was almost covered up. You know what I don't get about these things though, everytime it happends, they always say something like "this won't happen for another 3 billion years because of the placement of all the planets at the specific time" but yet we seem to get one at least once per year!

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Chris Vogel · Post by **Chris Vogel** » Sat Nov 08, 2003 9:07 pm

It didn't look as red as I hoped it would...

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