Total lunar eclipse early Tuesday

[Ban Hammer 13,656]

found this on yahoo news.

[Nessa 23]

There's nothing I can say, a total eclipse of the heart..

[eric&gen 0]

WOW I might stay up for this.

[rika60607 215]

Darn!

You made me wish I was in the US! :crying:

Oh well, will be watching in Feb/2008, one way or another

[Marilyn. 340]

i totally slept through it... I remembered when i woke up and I went to look and I did see a bit of it.....

[Kathryn41 3,205]

One of my cats got me up at 5:20 am (ok, he also got me up at 2:30 and 4:15) and I went to look at the moon. It was partially eclipsed with the top third 'swallowed' by the earth's shadow - kind of cool. I went back to bed though and missed the rest of it:-). I am glad I got to see part of it.

[*JG* 2]

Here's a cool tidbit I found about it in our local paper:

Today's event reminded history buffs that half a millennium ago, Christopher Columbus used a lunar eclipse to pull himself out of a bind. Advertisement

On Feb. 29, 1504, Columbus found himself stranded on Jamaica with the crew members from the four vessels he'd taken on his final voyage to the New World.

The sailors were out of food, and the Indians of Jamaica were refusing to give them any.

So Columbus resorted to a sly trick. He knew from his sailor's almanac that a lunar eclipse was due that Leap Year Day's night. So he told the Indians that unless they provided food to him and his men, he'd take away their moon.

The Indians scoffed at Columbus. But a few hours later, they saw the moon vanishing, bit by bit. Panicked, they ran to fetch food for the sailors.

[Jasman0717 9]

I saw the end of it but just couldn't get out of bed at 2am for the beginning.

[Sister Fracas 5]

I saw it go from about half gone to totally gone and then when I went back to see it go back to half full, it was hidden behind a building...drats! At least I watched it go to total eclipse though!

Edited August 28, 2007 by Frances

[Nessa 23]

I totally forgot, and I woke up in time to see some of it. I remembered when I was driving to work and the sun was blinding me I couldn't even see the road at some points