lunar eclipse
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mayoraaseiNever, ever watch the damn thing with a pair of binoculars.
Not only because one and a half hours later, your biceps have gone on strike and your fingers are starting to gangrenise (not a word) from lack of circulation (due to being stuck up in the air for so long).
Not only because you look like some perve, standing in your backyard with binoculars in the direction of your neighbour's toilet window.
Not only because that "bloody red" hue due to diffraction of light by Earth's atmosphere was totally nullified due to Sydney's light pollution and the awesome magnification of your binoculars, which somehow cancels out the diffraction effect (no, I'm serious, the moon looks redder without the binoculars!)
But because you're struck by the underwhelming sensation that...
Damn, it's like, just, a sad little lump of rock.
It's all grey and pimply and depressingly spherical and never would have had so many serenades sung in its name if it weren't, like, the biggest lump of light in the night sky.
And the fact that said lump of light changes to a boring routine that only bored physicists can be bothered working out.
Some things look better from a distance. LOL.
Not only because one and a half hours later, your biceps have gone on strike and your fingers are starting to gangrenise (not a word) from lack of circulation (due to being stuck up in the air for so long).
Not only because you look like some perve, standing in your backyard with binoculars in the direction of your neighbour's toilet window.
Not only because that "bloody red" hue due to diffraction of light by Earth's atmosphere was totally nullified due to Sydney's light pollution and the awesome magnification of your binoculars, which somehow cancels out the diffraction effect (no, I'm serious, the moon looks redder without the binoculars!)
But because you're struck by the underwhelming sensation that...
Damn, it's like, just, a sad little lump of rock.
It's all grey and pimply and depressingly spherical and never would have had so many serenades sung in its name if it weren't, like, the biggest lump of light in the night sky.
And the fact that said lump of light changes to a boring routine that only bored physicists can be bothered working out.
Some things look better from a distance. LOL.
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Date: 2007-08-28 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-28 01:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-28 01:20 pm (UTC)Got so anti-climatic...
like......
ohhhhhhh k!
If the eclipse happened over like ...2mins then it would be cooler....but then by that time either or the sun/earth/moon would be spinning out of control and we would all be doomed.
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Date: 2007-08-28 01:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-28 02:26 pm (UTC)yeah... I was little... "uh" about the moon.. Then again, its really hard to see anything with just your own eyes. We finally got out the binoculars and saw it a bit larger. It was like "woahh" and then... "i'm going back inside" =D
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Date: 2007-08-28 04:17 pm (UTC)I liked when it was getting eaten up by the shadow (about 7:30pm) then it just got very rusty and dim looking.
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Date: 2007-08-28 11:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-30 06:07 am (UTC)