Thanks!

Now I really can say it is cool and understand it!

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Lunar eclipse coming up a week from tomorrow. It's technically a partial as a teensy sliver will make it to the penumbra but something like 99% eclipse.

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Saw Andromeda with binoculars last week down near Champaign. It was a fuzzy, long blob, and it took a while to see even though I was looking right at it, but, kind of like seeing the comets in the past few years, it gave me a little jolt as I realized what it was. Pretty amazing.

I think the binoculars were 7 x 35. They're pretty heavy, so Andromeda was bobbing up and down like Caller Bob's head in a Cub Park restroom, but it was still pretty cool.

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Well thats a good thing to see. In really dark skies you might he able to see Andromeda with the naked eye. Maybe one of these days I'll have a star party and bring out my scope for yall to try out.

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This is happening tonight/tomorrow morning.
I believe totality starts around 120am Friday morning. The partial eclipse starts a few hours earlier.

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That would be cool. I go to U of I and the forest preserve when they have viewing nights. It's really cool. Have not seen Andromeda through the scope, though.

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3:02am will be at 97%.

WHO'S UP??

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You know me like that.

If I wake up to pee around that time I will stumble outside.

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I think the forecast if overcast.

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Ah. Prostate.

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Indoor plumbing has made great strides.

I won't say it's perfect but I'd look into it.

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as much as i want to see the lunar eclipse, there is no fucking way im waking up at 3 am

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Keep your eyes open if you have clear skies over the next few days.
A G1 geomagnetic storm from a recent solar flare has disabled somewhere around 40 starlink satellites. They are currently falling out of the sky. They should burn up completely and pose no risk to ground level but you might just catch a satellite breaking up and creating a spectacular fireball in the sky.

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There was a big ass explosion on the far side of the sun yesterday. This is probably a major sunspot group that will be rotating into view in the next few days. If something like this happens while pointing at earth... well stuff happens.

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It looks like a beautiful crash cymbal

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It proves Musk's starlink is a boondoggle?

Here's a fun little video of two comets plunging into the sun Wednesday.

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space is cool.

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

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On that note, on Saturday morning before dawn, Jupiter and Venus should be so close that they may appear to be a single point of light, depending on the timing of you catching it.

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Head up and eyes to the skies!

This coming Sunday we will get to see a lunar eclipse!
From what I gather totality should be by midnight so it's one for the kids to see.

Normally, a lunar eclipse bathes the moon in an orange reddish glow. But yall member that Tonga volcano a few months back. Pepperidge Farm members. You do too. Well that ash is still floating around in the stratosphere so expectations are for a darker deeper red color.

Check it out.

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the picture and your quote fit like hand in glove.

That eclipse is tomorrow dudes.

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is this where the earth steps in front of the moon, which darkens the moon?

Or where the fuckin moon steps in front of the sun, which darkens the fuckin sun?

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its cloudy

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1. Solar eclipse
2. Comet
3. Meteors
4. Street lamp
5. Lunar eclipse

I'll impress you one day.

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I was in Rockford up until a couple hours ago (I reall need to up my humble brag game) and it was clear and it seemed to be moving into the area...hope I can see something