Lunar Eclipse at 3:00-5:00 in the morning

[Zanaran2]

The Blood Moon is rising...

time to place huge blocks of dirt in front of my door

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[Ladios]

Woo I woke up early as usual and was expecting to, as the last few nights have had a full moon, to find my way to coffee in the moonlight, only there wasnt any. "Who turned off the moon" was my first thought until I looked up and say the moon sitting in the sky nearly perpetually partially prenumbraized. I guess this is a weird timing thing and on the east coast they had the sun rise at exactly the solar eclipse time, so I guess I missed the primary eclipse, but this partial is taking soooo long to pass I don't even mind. Eeee space is so cool

[Space1255]

Eeee, space is so cool

Thx <3

[Flatflyer]

damn I  missed it

[Redconer]

Thx <3

But Space has no oxygen and carbon!

[Ladios]

So I was like why is this like the longest lunar eclipse ever and I started looking stuff up, I already knew the moon orbited slightly slower than the earth span which is what causes the phases to be slightly offset from a month etc. But sitting there watching the moon slowly fall and earths shadow slowly fall down the moon in the same direction, the projected angular velocity of everything suddenly seemed very relevant. The shadow was going at a very steady rate which I would approximate to a half a degree an hour (as that is about the offset the moon travels against the stars, which deductively is the rate the earth rotates), given the moon is at a full moon between 29.4 and 33.5 arc minutes, how long would this moon eclipse had to have been? My sources say it was a 2 hour eclipse but I dont think that covers the time the moon is partially blocked which I include as part of the awesomeness.

damn I  missed it

The bottom bit is still covered, look now or miss it for real

[Space1255]

But Space has no oxygen and carbon!

We can launch containers of oxygen and carbon in there!
And watch them get shattered by space junk