Re: Man, I missed the Lunar Eclipse

On Aug 30, 8:56 pm, TBerk <bayareab...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
And here all I saw was a few shots on the next day's news programs.

It seems (while I am responsible for keeping up on things myself)
there should have been a great deal more publicity around this thing
prior to-

but then again it's hard to sell something that happens for free, out
of doors and overhead all over.

Still, I lament the greying out of the night sky, the dumbing down of
the next door neighbor, and the distancing of the natural environment
going on all around us.

TBerk
scurry, scurry little rats, we must run the race!

While there was extensive coverage in the specialist media,
there was just about zero coverage anywhere else here in
Vancouver.

I suspect that totality at 0300 local time might have had
something to do with it. The last lunar eclipse here
(28 October 2004) was in the early evening, and the local
media went nuts.

It was a pretty good eclipse, despite the haze.

Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Non sequitur. Your ACKS are
Grid: CN89mg uncoordinated."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Nomad the Network Engineer

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