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Maybe, just maybe our director of the planitarium is a giant pumpkin grower??? Here is his description of last nights lunar eclipse...

"It is a completely unique experience...The moon looks like some kind of weird glowing pumpkin.”

A fully eclipsed moon doesn't just disappear in the night sky. It gives off a reddish orange glow. And as magical as that may seem, there is a scientific explanation. "

2/21/2008 12:07:18 PM

Farmville, Virginia ([email protected])

So maybe Linus was right about "The Great Pumpkin" after all!!!

2/21/2008 3:11:43 PM

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Only the next one won't appear til 2010.

2/21/2008 3:36:07 PM

Napa Valley, CA

This morning, the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle had a large color photo of Coit Tower just as the eclipse started. The moon is a huge orange globe behind the Tower. Magnificent photo.

2/21/2008 3:50:57 PM

Minnesota

I thought it looked like blue cheese covered by a orange cheese spread.

2/21/2008 4:10:06 PM

Napa Valley, CA

photo on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/02/21/MNJNV6BA4.DTL&o=1

2/21/2008 4:11:40 PM

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The eclipse was cool. Red moon = awesome! This one was as good as any I've had the pleasure to see.

Here's a cool eclipse story - same "February eclipse" that we just saw.

http://starryskies.com/The_sky/events/lunar-2003/columbus.eclipse.html

2/21/2008 4:37:01 PM

British Columbia, Canada

I saw it

2/21/2008 5:52:00 PM

it was at the perfect times of the day for me;
about 9 PM strolling outta the gym, twenty minutes later going-into the store and then an occasional glance
every little bit on the drive home (swerve!).
i put-aside a minute or two to just stare at it once i got home----four-hundred years ago or so, we would have wondered what the Gods were angy about-----

2/21/2008 6:55:10 PM