Saturday, December 10, 2011

TOTAL ECLIPSE. WHAT?

I was doing some Saturday afternoon housework while listening to the ABC Sydney from this blog, when I just heard that they were enjoying an unusual lunar eclipse we would not be able to see in the same way in Europe. Thanks to the Internet I watched the news online and heard the listeners impressions while the event was taking place. BEAUTIFUL, they agreed.
The funny thing was that later on they had an Australian correspondent in Madrid telling weird stories about a priest shooting doves to protect his church tower, someone stealing hundreds of supermarket trolleys, someone else cashing an important 2006 lottery ticket or the mayor of Malaga trying to fight careless dog owners through new technologies. And so on. It was time for the Australian listeners to go to bed and time for central Europe to start out our evening. And this is what I found for you:

While varying portions of the event were visible across much of the globe, Australia was one of best places in the world to catch what was the last full eclipse until 2014.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/total-eclipse-turns-moon-blood-red/story-e6frfro0-1226219124570#ixzz1gAIw4oVh


The eclipse is seen over the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco / AP/San Francisco Chronicle

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/total-eclipse-turns-moon-blood-red/story-e6frfro0-1226219124570#ixzz1gAPEWKpD

YouTube will be broadcasting on the Web a red-glowing lunar eclipse today at 11:20 a.m. PDT that otherwise will only be visible in the skies of South America, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. Sorry, North America.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi mate, do I have to worry if the moon looked white instead of red and I looked re instead of white?
Ta very much.

Joan Climent said...

I wouldn't worry. Just use a good protector cream when you sunbathe after a hangover.