Partiality

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010

3:15 AM, New Orleans Of course this is a terrible photo, but it proves I was there. I caught some zzz, then got up at 1:45AM. The total eclipse was in full effect. A half dozen people were hanging out in the street in front of Banks Street Bar, gazing upward. I went around the [...]

Eclipse + Solstice

Monday, December 20th, 2010

An interesting pair of celestial events is in the offing. In addition to the solstice (Tuesday 5:38PM central) there’s a full lunar eclipse which should be visible in North America all night after midnight tonight — weather permitting. Unfortunately, here in New Orleans we’ve got a good chance of cloud cover all night. But it’s [...]

Eclipse

Wednesday, October 27th, 2004

Best damn lunar eclipse I’ve ever seen.