Lunar Eclipse
Watching the lunar eclipse was something that could be experienced by all, regardless of social status, wealth, religion and for a few minutes or an hour, depending on how long you wanted to witness it, you were watching something that can be directly linked back to our ancestors thousands of years ago.
Finding calm, even inner peace, is something that is often hard to do but watching the eclipse was a spiritual moment that I find increasingly rare. Yes, you can lose yourself in a piece of music, or a book and just watching the clouds drift by but the simple act of staring at the moon turn from white, then grey, then red/orange was an act of solitary spiritualism that was also, ironically, being shared by millions across the planet.
It was wonderful.
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It was. I phoned the Nolan show last night (they'd asked for people to phone in describing what they could see from their part of the country) and they phoned me back to say I'd be on. I was holding on the phone for over half an hour and then the line went dead.
Anyway - what I would have said (if he'd got around to me) was in Guernsey there was no red or pink around it.
When it was 7/8ths covered I could loads of stars in the sky also (not much light pollution here!) and once the eclipse was total and as the moon began to show again, I couldn't see a single star.
We had no idea that it was due to happen, but we were coming back from a night out at around 11.30 last night and we just stood staring at it for about 3 minutes. We both thought we were seeing things because we were pissed (we were very pissed).
We had no idea that it was due to happen, but we were coming back from a night out at around 11.30 last night and we just stood staring at it for about 3 minutes. We both thought we were seeing things because we were pissed (we were very pissed).
I saw it as well.
Do you remember that comet in 1997 ? that was very spooky !
I missed it and dearly regret it.
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