Lunar Eclipse

Nice and clear here, too. Quite odd to have no clouds, full moon, crisp shadows on the snow and an hour later nothing but an eerie red glowing moon.

yes, I've been watching, very cool!

Anybody see Saturn & Regulus? I see 2 stars, one at 9 oclock and one at 1 oclock, but they seem a bit far away. I thought they were supposed to be closer.

16 F here and clear, perfect for viewing. Wood stove keeping things a comfy 71 F.

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yep, checking it out and listening to Dark side of Moon on KZOK (Seattle) , pretty cool

Not to spoil the mood, but I heard the pentagon just managed to shoot that dead satellite down. Coincidince it was right during the full lunar eclipse or is there truly a dark side to this whole moon thing tonight? I'm not normally a conspiracy guy, maybe I'm just more cynical in my older age.

Pretty much done here now, but it was pretty easy to see from here.
Close to -30 outside right now, so I didn't spend too much time outside enjoying it.

jpl1nh said:

Not to spoil the mood, but I heard the pentagon just managed to shoot that dead satellite down. Coincidince it was right during the full lunar eclipse or is there truly a dark side to this whole moon thing tonight? I'm not normally a conspiracy guy, maybe I'm just more cynical in my older age.

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As fae as are Federal government goes I would never rule anything out. Hell we don't even have a clue as to what is going on since we as voters have given them soo much power. When it comes down to it we and the generations before us have started a major down turn in our country which is un fixable which started with printing paper money not backed agaist gold. After that it was all down hill and has spiraled since, alond with all the other stupid dissisions we have made as voters. I will stop my short rant now.

Oh, I bet it had ZERO to do with toxins but the fact that they new it was going to crash in some other country and they would have had access to something of ours. Our media is bought and paid for take it witha super sized grain of salt.

whphel said:

Oh, I bet it had ZERO to do with toxins but the fact that they new it was going to crash in some other country and they would have had access to something of ours. Our media is bought and paid for take it witha super sized grain of salt.

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That sounds like the most reasonable explanation. Combine that with the desire to demonstrate that the Chinese are not the only ones that can hit a satellite in space.

Who knows, that "super secret spy satellite" that "failed" could have been a big black wood stove sent up there just to become a target.

Missed the eclipse - we're clouded in - more snow...who would have thought of that. Did anyone see any bits of the satellite re-enter? I had to wait about 4 orbits after the shoot down for the cloud of debris to pass overhead (about 2:30 am this morning) but again - clouds. IIRC, the 2nd or 3rd orbits were passing over the east coast.

As far as the conspiracy - who knows. Kind of nice when everything falls in your lap...defunct satellite, poisonous fuel, new missile needs testing, want to show China a thing or two, lunar eclipse makes targeting relatively easy. Maybe the satellite was never planned to do anything anyway...just an empty case with a bunch of junk parts that we knew we'd get to shoot down in a couple of years.

The thing that sticks in my mind in a case like this is the work surrounding the "Hughes Glomar Explorer" - google that if you want to read an interesting conspiracy!

At least it's nice to know that the guys in Washington are not the only hypocrites on the block. China is 'very concerned, condemned the action, and watching the situation very closely' They didn't seem to mind when the blew up their satellite and almost sprayed the ISS with debris.

As far as the conspiracy - who knows. Kind of nice when everything falls in your lap...defunct satellite, poisonous fuel, new missile needs testing, want to show China a thing or two, lunar eclipse makes targeting relatively easy. Maybe the satellite was never planned to do anything anyway...just an empty case with a bunch of junk parts that we knew we’d get to shoot down in a couple of years. Guess that's pretty much my view too. And the China thing, yup, second that too, okay when we do it but not when you do it. Occurred to me that blowing it up during the eclipse proabaly provided much better visibility of the actual impact/destruction. Any how, the eclipse was beautiful, it was crystal clear here in NH and the stars seemed bigger than life while the moon was shadowed.