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| pbholmes |
Lunar Eclipses 2008Two lunar eclipses are predicted for 2008.First, there's a total lunar eclipse on February 21st, which will be easily visible from here (weather permitting). The second is a partial lunar eclipse on August 16th, just barely visible from here. February 21st, Total Visibility map 
August 16th, Partial 
Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC Eclipse maps courtesy of Fred Espenak - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center For more information on solar and lunar eclipses, see Fred Espenak's Eclipse Home Page: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html |
| pbholmes |
2 weeksLunar eclipses quite often happen 2 weeks before or after solar ones.Look out for a partial lunar eclipse on Saturday evening. |
| astrogeorge |
It looks like we will miss tonights eclipse, i hate the british weather! |
| seabay |
Well, it was pretty much a bust down here as well - caught one brief glimpse at around 9pm - you could see the lower left quadrant of the moon was darker than the rest, but if you hadn't known it was an eclipse, you'd just have thought it was a patch of denser cloud! |