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bright moon, dark shadow (and cookies!)
Friday, November 19th, 2021 02:11 amAn almost-total Lunar Eclipse tonight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80uMSAWogjo
The partial eclipse starts in a few minutes, and the maximum will be at 4:03am EST.
https://www.timeanddate.com/live/eclipse-lunar-2021-november-19
...today’s eclipse lasts 6 hours and 2 minutes. For a lunar eclipse that isn’t a total eclipse—in other words, it only has penumbral and partial phases—that’s very long. In fact, this eclipse is the longest of the 841 partial lunar eclipses between the years 1600 and 2599.
Why is it so long? One reason is that today’s Full Moon is a Micromoon: the Moon is near apogee, its farthest point from Earth. When the Moon is farther away, it orbits more slowly and takes longer to move through Earth’s shadow.
Update, 2:22am:
Yes! I see the shadow!!! (I can tell this is going to be another late nighter for me, yet again. (But I'm on vacation, so it's not so bad!))
Update, 2:29am:
I know! I'll bake these chocolate chip cookies while I'm waiting for the moon to almost-fully eclipse!
... Oh good grief. "Place pucks on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper." As if everyone has parchment paper. Are they implying I should grease the pan? Or is the parchment paper just to keep the pan from getting dirty? Grease it is I guess.
... Dang, I bet the pan I used is too small. Those cookie pucks are larger than I expected. I'm going to dork up the easy-peasy ready-to-bake cookies, aren't I?
Update, 2:47am:
The moon's already half-eaten up by the shadow!
I'll never understand how my camera manages to turn even a half-eaten-up moon into a completely round whitish blob, even with it set to the shortest exposure time. Let's see, maybe if I hold some sunglasses in front of the lens to reduce the brightness...
Update, 2:58am:
The sunglasses work; the photos show the right shape of the moon now. But there's still not much detail.
And yep, the cookies are running into each other. Oh well. Hopefully I won't over-bake them.
3:18am:
The cookies are almost certainly over-baked for my preferences. But they'll be fully-eaten, I'm sure.
4:20am:
:)))))))))))))
Good night, moon!
..
It sure is nice having that website with eclipse-related tweets and posts from around the world, and that YouTube livestream video with chat comments turned on, to feel part of something exciting that bunches of other people are excited about too, rather than just being excited about it alone like it would otherwise feel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80uMSAWogjo
The partial eclipse starts in a few minutes, and the maximum will be at 4:03am EST.
https://www.timeanddate.com/live/eclipse-lunar-2021-november-19
...today’s eclipse lasts 6 hours and 2 minutes. For a lunar eclipse that isn’t a total eclipse—in other words, it only has penumbral and partial phases—that’s very long. In fact, this eclipse is the longest of the 841 partial lunar eclipses between the years 1600 and 2599.
Why is it so long? One reason is that today’s Full Moon is a Micromoon: the Moon is near apogee, its farthest point from Earth. When the Moon is farther away, it orbits more slowly and takes longer to move through Earth’s shadow.
Update, 2:22am:
Yes! I see the shadow!!! (I can tell this is going to be another late nighter for me, yet again. (But I'm on vacation, so it's not so bad!))
Update, 2:29am:
I know! I'll bake these chocolate chip cookies while I'm waiting for the moon to almost-fully eclipse!
... Oh good grief. "Place pucks on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper." As if everyone has parchment paper. Are they implying I should grease the pan? Or is the parchment paper just to keep the pan from getting dirty? Grease it is I guess.
... Dang, I bet the pan I used is too small. Those cookie pucks are larger than I expected. I'm going to dork up the easy-peasy ready-to-bake cookies, aren't I?
Update, 2:47am:
The moon's already half-eaten up by the shadow!
I'll never understand how my camera manages to turn even a half-eaten-up moon into a completely round whitish blob, even with it set to the shortest exposure time. Let's see, maybe if I hold some sunglasses in front of the lens to reduce the brightness...
Update, 2:58am:
The sunglasses work; the photos show the right shape of the moon now. But there's still not much detail.
And yep, the cookies are running into each other. Oh well. Hopefully I won't over-bake them.
3:18am:
The cookies are almost certainly over-baked for my preferences. But they'll be fully-eaten, I'm sure.
4:20am:
:)))))))))))))
Good night, moon!
..
It sure is nice having that website with eclipse-related tweets and posts from around the world, and that YouTube livestream video with chat comments turned on, to feel part of something exciting that bunches of other people are excited about too, rather than just being excited about it alone like it would otherwise feel.
