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Woke up early this morning to catch the lunar eclipse and was not disappointed. Wish I had decent photos to share but alas my only iPhone camera was not up to the task. Slowly the moon disappeared behind a blood red disc as it sank below the horizon just before totality.. an awesome sight that gave me shivers thinking how such events were regarded in antiquity. I was able to watch from inside a warm house as it could be seen from my west facing front doorway. Commuters traveling the road at that early hour whizzed by seemingly unaware..
They are very interesting but with my old age sleep drugs, I didnt get up. Plus I have seen them before. There is, However, a comet coming by (if it survives the sun without coming apart, in early April. ) It is just possible that it will be a daylight comet...
 
They are very interesting but with my old age sleep drugs, I didnt get up. Plus I have seen them before. There is, However, a comet coming by (if it survives the sun without coming apart, in early April. ) It is just possible that it will be a daylight comet...
My apartment windows all face NE. I saw what looked like a full moon around midnight (skies usually cloudy with rain here so a bright moon really catches the eye). But I forgot there was going to be anything else happening so, as usual, I missed it. Probably won't see the comet either. I guess I need my grandfather. He'd been in the merchant navy in his youth, and after settling on land with a family, he'd get my father out of bed at night and carry him outside wrapped in a blanket to observe anything uncommon happening.
 
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