cookie bite missing with very fast high clouds whipping past. I've seen other eclipses but the partial cloud and high wind really adds to this one!
Almost totality at 9:48 pm. Total at 10:12 pm I think. No coyotes heard, yet. We do hear them from time to time. Chilling. Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
For coyotes singing, I've heard just a few of the homo inebrius variety. Not currently in a location to hear any canis latrans.
Any lunar viewing might be enhanced by knowing about where humans have yet set their feet. My initial version could certainly be improved:
Now that the moon is returning to the sky, I hear coyotes in several directions. Some are close by. Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
During which a meteoritic impact flash was detected on moon: A meteorite hit the moon during yesterday's total lunar eclipse | New Scientist That fella had been looking for such during past lunar eclipses and finally bagged one. I suppose these impacts are no less common on plain old 'new moon' dark surfaces, but there are so many more scopes and eyes looking there during lunar eclipses.
It is highly unlikely that you would have seen it without a telescope, and looking at precisely the right moment. Based on past reports (I haven't caught up on this one), they are spotted on video, not by naked eye. A very few suspects were spotted before video existed. Those few events must have been from far larger impactors.
I dressed warmly and spent most of the evening outside, admiring the spectacle. Binoculars helped, though a rare clear and dry night was the best incentive. My dog couldn't figure out why we kept going outside, as she knew the squirrels were fast asleep, and is finally wary of the stripey smelly cats. Maybe it was her Dingo heritage that kept her from being excited about a wolf moon.
I SAW THE SUPERMOON........ after the clouds cleared...... & the eclipse was over. I performed western Washington state astronomy. Hey, I got to see the 1979 solar eclipse, when the Washington state clouds disappeared 30 minutes before the eclipse AND the clouds covered the sun 20minutes after the eclipse ended. Also, the yearly Washington state star party was occurring while the 1994 comet pummeled Jupiter. We got to see it thru hundreds of telescopes. So I ain't complainin'..... ya hear!
I was lucky enough to take a road trip to Kentucky to view the Great American Eclipse of 2017. Truly an Awe-inspiring event of my life. I already have reservations set for the 2024 eclipse through Texas!
While I was watching this one from a ski town in Colorado, a friend was watching it from her deck on Lake Washington. Everett is not that far away, though Mother Nature can squeeze multiple cloud and weather systems within that short distance. So were you at Goldendale? I was much farther east on the track and under a 100% cloud deck. But I least I got to see the shadow edge moving at high speed along that cloud deck. For the 2017 solar eclipse, I managed to get on the track at Weiser ID. The clear sky view was almost infinitely better than the earlier solid cloud deck view. Table Mountain near Ellensburg? If so, I attended that event four consecutive years back in the 1980s, when it was still under a hundred people. But getting a gf with a broader recreational base didn't leave enough spare time for astronomy, so I haven't been back since.
I was south of Goldendale at the large campground on the Columbia River. I also saw the shadow edge, but in clear weather, as it swept the canyon cliffs along the river. Could hear the hippies at the Stonehenge replica, as they shouted during the eclipse. Got back into Astronomy for the 3rd time in the 1990's. My partner & I had an astronomy business & made a little tickling change.
