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Total Lunar Eclipse on 20/21 Dec (The Winter Solstice!)

DwayneHoover said:
You don't enjoy watching the moon turn a deep ominous shade of bloody red over a period of 45 minutes then back again?

Where's your sense of myth and mystery and that feeling of seeing "nature speak"?

It's very a very neat and epic looking thing to view, anytime, but especially so tripping.
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I've seen many lunar eclipses and I just wasn't all that impressed. I've seen a few partial solar eclipses and I found them more interesting. I look forward to the total solar eclipse of 2017. That's going to be a spectacular one!
 
Here's another good lunar eclipse slide.

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Hell yea! I'm extremely exited for this. I really appreciate the beauty in such natural phenomena. And I will most definitely be tripping on a large dose of 2c-t-2
 
AfterGlow said:
I've seen many lunar eclipses and I just wasn't all that impressed. I've seen a few partial solar eclipses and I found them more interesting.
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Youve seen TOTAL lunar eclipses when the moon turns dark red? From start to at least a little after totality, as it starts to regain its normal color?

Alot of the fun and interest and feeling comes from being out there under the sky for the whole thing, engaging yourself in the entire procedure, not just popping out into the yard or peeking out the window for a few seconds right at totality.

What happens is, due to the brightness of the still fully illuminated part, even when its still a SLIVER away from totality, even when totality first arrives, at first you do NOT see the RED moon image. ONLY once coverage is total... after several seconds, THEN as your eyes adjust you see this baleful weird 100% red looking orb hanging up there in then sky. (sometimes the colored dim area CAN be seen before totality, but the full effect is not accomplished till totality) HOW CAN THAT NOT SEEM "IMPRESSIVE" TO YOU, DUDE?

How can that not seem cool, spooky and eerie to you?

They are a slower more contemplative affair, than solar eclipses, that's for sure. Partial solar eclipses, on the other hand, seem boring to me, unless it is like 95% in which you can actually detect a decrease in brightness... less coverage than that the only thing apparent with the naked eye are maybe little partial-sun shaped shadows under trees or something... kinda cute, really cool actually but fairly dull, IMO.

For this total lunar eclipse, what with all the snow the US has gotten, if you can find a country landscape that is still all covered in bright white snow, where the area should be extremely bright, almost like daylight due to a huge bright full moon hitting all that snow (which can be an impressive experience all its own), the transition to an entire landscape bathed in a dim ominous deep orange / red light should be pretty damned friggin cool, IMHO!

But to each his own I guess.
 
Dont forget about the yearly Perseid meteor showers in August! Amazing to watch sober or otherwise :)
 
^ did you look at any photos of the dark red moon in totality, including the one in this thread? did you read my description of how it is still there, but actually a deep red/orange color? Can you conceive that this color is coming from the combination of ALL THE SUNSETS AND SUNRISES ON THE ENTIRE EARTH ALL AT ONCE, BEING REFLECTED BACK INTO YOUR EYEBALLS, and how cool a concept that is? can you imagine what that makes a snow covered landscape around you look like?

What makes you think its like a light switch "wup now its gone, wup there it is again"... what are you, like 10yo? Silly person.
 
There's going to be desert party for it, so I was thiking of just taking some LSD or maybe 4-HO-MET and go party with some hippies in the desert.
 
I'm so accustomed to seeing the moon in different phases, in different parts of the sky, even during the day time, that it just doesn't look all that unusual to see it going dark from the earth's shadow over the course of many hours. It's a slow process. Yes, it has a reddish hue during totality. It's not completely invisible. But I've seen much more striking orange full moons rising in the summertime and it looks huge when it's low to the ground. Sorry... I'm not trying to bust anybody's bubble. By all means go out and enjoy it if you've never seen it before.
 
delta_9 said:
This is already posted in S&T....where it belongs.
What on Earth does this have to do with psychedelic drugs? 8(
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Its here because at least some of the discussion pertains to DOING PSYCHEDELIC DRUGS DURING IT and also about in general what a TRIPPY PHENOMENON it is.

What are you OCD? What skin is it off your nose to bitch about it? If you dislike that its here, just dont click on it. Sheesh, who gives a fuck, whats the big deal. Some people are so anal.
 
AfterGlow, OK, and you can stay in and sleep and ignore it. Meanwhile those of us who want to make a cool nightime special event out of it and combine it with pagan celebration of the solstice by ourselves or with friends and an occasion to get stoked, will gather here and talk about how neat itll be and the parties we will have and the drugs we will do during it. And you can ignore us... deal?
 
DwayneHoover said:
AfterGlow, OK, and you can stay in and sleep and ignore it. Meanwhile those of us who want to make a cool nightime special event out of it and combine it with pagan celebration of the solstice by ourselves or with friends and an occasion to get stoked, will gather here and talk about how neat itll be and the parties we will have and the drugs we will do during it. And you can ignore us... deal?
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No deal! I'm going to invoke a chant summoning the gods of darkness. I will fill the sky with clouds and obscure the object of your pagan ritual!
 
OH NO!! 8o Forgive me Great Contrarian One! I bow to Thy mighty scowl! =D (you must have already started... tuned in weather and they're predicting snow here... bummer, er um, I mean: why O why was I so insolent? )
 
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