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Sagebrusher
Sport climber
Iowa
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A full moon is always opposite the sun. It can happen anytime of the day. I, too, have never seen a lunar eclipse in the morning.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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A lunar eclipse happens when the Earth's shadow falls on the Moon so the Moon, Earth and Sun are all in line, that means that the Moon and the Sun are about 180º apart when viewed from the Earth.
A lunar eclipse only happens during a "full Moon"
A solar eclipse only happens during a "no Moon" when the Moon's shadow falls on the Earth.
An eclipse can happen any time of the day, with the visibility obviously limited to where you are on the Earth's surface when it happens.
Tomorrow morning, the Moon sets at 7:15am in the Bay Area at an azimuth of roughly 300º, or WNW. The total eclipse will happen when the Moon is at an altitude of 7º
To find how high in the sky that is, make a fist, extend your arm, put the bottom of your fist at the horizon (level) and count up three knuckles...
If you can see that from your perspective viewing position towards WNW you'll see the moon...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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scuffy, did you forget the one during Hale Bop?
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ladyscarlett
Trad climber
SF Bay Area, California
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why wouldn't they open Mt Diablo for this?
I hear other parks do it on a fairly consistent basis.
Its damn cold for a sick girl, but might be able to view it from my backyard...
Cheers!
LS
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Where are you bound?
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Open, closed....Details.
Go up to a high place & behold the Wonder. It's good stuff, that Wonder.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 10, 2011 - 08:20am PT
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I got up with "the working class."
Currently the moon is about 1/3 eclipsed and here in the Rockies-----it is colder than a ice-climbers toes.
Getting some photos and will take more.
Good luck to all you early risers!
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Dec 10, 2011 - 08:29am PT
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Great view right out the window over the puter.
About half way there now and about 10 deg above the horizon so we'll get to see totality from here.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Dec 10, 2011 - 08:49am PT
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Getting some shots it's like twenty in Moab....
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mrtropy
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Dec 10, 2011 - 08:53am PT
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Looking cool as I wait for the coffee, a slight bit of haze is making it , well, hazy.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 10, 2011 - 08:54am PT
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Here's a couple. Damn! It's cold out there.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 10, 2011 - 09:18am PT
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Getting light out now.
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reddirt
climber
PNW
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Dec 10, 2011 - 09:24am PT
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keep 'em coming Fritz...
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The Alpine
Big Wall climber
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Dec 10, 2011 - 09:28am PT
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Awesome Fritz.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Dec 10, 2011 - 09:37am PT
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Nice shots Fritz! We have a bit of clouds coming in here so after a few teases, it a bust.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Dec 10, 2011 - 09:41am PT
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and cathenge too!!!!
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reddirt
climber
PNW
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Dec 10, 2011 - 09:46am PT
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wouldn't it be great if there was a gathering/sushifest for the next one, esp for those of us in the PNW who live below the clouds?.. perhaps a gathering in the SW or CA... or perhaps Rainier/Muir though the logistics would be a pain...
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 10, 2011 - 09:48am PT
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OK. It's down. It was getting so light out, that the moon all but vanished before it set.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Dec 10, 2011 - 09:58am PT
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Rise up this morning,
Smile with the
Eclipsing Moon.
I woke up with my daddy,
and we watched the Moon Eclipse.
And then I tried on my Holiday dress
that I bought for Sophia's
birthday party December 10, 2011.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Dec 10, 2011 - 10:28am PT
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Good shot during totality, Fritz!
I was up at the crack of 06:15, and only 10-15% of the Moon was in shadow. As I brewed my coffee, I watched through my West atrium door; as totality occurred, it was only "one finger" above the crest of hills to my West, and it was below horizon before it began to emerge again. Very cool! Most of the recent eclipses have been obscured by clouds.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 10, 2011 - 11:03am PT
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It clouded in overnight here, so no eclipse - although a ghost of a moon was visible through the clouds.
I saw Hale-Bopp and the lunar eclipse then - April 1997 - in Joshua Tree. Totally cosmic!
(Lunar eclipses on the west coast seem to be either in the evening or the morning, but not at midnight. Ed H has no doubt explained.)
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