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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
eclipse
Guess who stayed up really really late last night?
It was amazing, really. I went outside at 12:30. The world was as bright as dawn, and seemed brighter because of the contrast with the deep shadows. I sat in the backyard with my camera on the tripod, watching the eclipse, taking a picture every few minutes, and reading that massively annoying book for school (there's a mood-shatterer). T and the kids came out just before 3 AM to see the beginning of totality; by the time I went in the house at 3:40, the night was dark as any moonless night; the stars were gorgeous, and I had a hard time finding my way around in my own backyard, dark-adjusted eyes and all.
Here's a time-lapse video of it (didn't embed it because I could NOT make autostart shut off, and I didn't want all three of the people who read this to be blasting O Fortuna every time they went to my page for the next ten entries, which means, what, three months). It's not fabulous but it's better than the one I may or may not have posted and nearly immediately deleted this afternoon. RSS feed? what RSS feed?
Comments
I did notice that this post was different than the one i read ealier. did you do that just to confuse me???? =)
Posted by: debi at August 28, 2007 09:05 PM
Wow that was really cool. Except, it freaked me out big time watching that black darkness swallow up the light of the moon. But it was a very cool video, and I'm grateful you shared it, because I wanted to get up and watch the eclipse myself, but I was too lazy. (ignore horrid grammar plz) Thanks, Rachel!
Posted by: Denise at August 28, 2007 09:08 PM
AWESOME video. The red moon is really something. I didn't get to see it (not a full eclipse here and it was just about done by the time we woke up in the morning). Thank you for doing this and posting it!
And the music? Just amazing. Going to iTunes to download a copy -- I never knew the name of it so I couldn't get it!
Posted by: mary at August 29, 2007 06:25 AM
Mary -- thanks. The song is actually about a minute longer; I had to edit it down for length. It's from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff (much of the rest of which is painful to even my music-nerd ears; remember the bad old days when if you wanted a song you had to buy the whole CD?).
Posted by: Rachel at August 29, 2007 07:46 AM
That was AWESOME.
Posted by: jennifer at August 29, 2007 07:57 PM
Agreed!! Thanks, because I totally forgot about it...!
Posted by: Susan at August 30, 2007 06:35 AM
