Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Here's a nice picture of the other night's lunar eclipse as it looked from here in The Southern Part of Heaven.
That's actually a picture from an eclipse in 2003. Cool, nonetheless.
I got up at 4:30 am to watch the eclipse with my mother, who is very into astrology (she doesn't take herself very seriously). As we watched the eclipse she kept remarking how *shocked* she was that no one else in the neighborhood was outside to witness such a monumentous occurrence.
Posted by: NotATurtle at August 28, 2007 05:22 PMWhat is this?!? I demand deformed babies whose mother's alcoholism caused them to be born with three penises. Or something.
Posted by: bitchphd at August 28, 2007 11:43 PMNice photo, Apo. It was overcast here, unfortunately.
The explanation seems slightly off - at the time of the full eclipse, the moon was visible "by sunlight reflected from the Earth, after being refracted through the Earth's atmosphere" would be right.
Posted by: TokyoTom at August 30, 2007 03:46 AM