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Message 1976016 - Posted: 20 Jan 2019, 5:21:17 UTC

Unfortunately it has become overcast in the last coupe of hours here in central Florida as the cold front is coming through.
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Message 1976065 - Posted: 20 Jan 2019, 15:50:01 UTC - in response to Message 1976016.  
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Same here in Quebec :(

But for us and the rest of us :

"#Supermoon" lunar #eclipse Live broadcast 1030 pm EST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bicnsife1Hk&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3tQ380i7vwsK5bz9JOymowvfSBtwv3n7HsaZ-lAzmmlawB9mhD3zPKA00
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Unfortunately it has become overcast in the last coupe of hours here in central Florida as the cold front is coming through.

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Message 1976069 - Posted: 20 Jan 2019, 16:03:35 UTC
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It's looking excellent for London. We've not had a single cloud in the sky all day and as long as that lasts, which I think they're saying it will, it's very promising. I expect I'll be awake for it too because I'm not sleeping terribly well.

I'll try get a picture or two if all that I said up there ---^ happens :) I'm sorry to hear you might not get to see it though (the eclipse, not so much my pictures. My photography skills are more absent than present when I operate cameras and such).
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Message 1976074 - Posted: 20 Jan 2019, 16:27:23 UTC
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Of course. A Supermoon on a Monday:)
Hmm. Maximum effect here at 6.12 am and cloudy all night...
https://www.timeanddate.com/live/
Just checked. Now, Sunday 5.45 pm, there is a perfect clear sky overe here with a very bright full moon shining:)
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Message 1976076 - Posted: 20 Jan 2019, 16:47:56 UTC

With 10/10 cloud cover predicted for tonight I'm joining the "Can't See The Moon Club" :-(
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Message 1976078 - Posted: 20 Jan 2019, 16:54:48 UTC
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Not looking too good for eclipse viewing here in northern California, either. Last evening got my hopes up. I could see the Moon through thin, broken clouds that seemed to promise a break in the fairly consistent overcast of recent days. Then it clouded up again and rained, overnight. Back to near- total overcast this morning. The weather predictors see a possibility of clearing, later today, but that remains to be seen.
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Message 1976160 - Posted: 21 Jan 2019, 1:01:36 UTC

Not looking too good here, I can just see the moon through some thin cloud.
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Message 1976169 - Posted: 21 Jan 2019, 3:07:47 UTC

What a dummy I was. The eclipse is tonight Sunday/Monday. I thought it was last night Saturday/Sunday. Perfectly clear tonight but very cold for Florida.
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Message 1976174 - Posted: 21 Jan 2019, 3:55:47 UTC

The cloud cover has cleared in the central Puget Sound area and things will be potentially good.
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Message 1976182 - Posted: 21 Jan 2019, 5:24:09 UTC

Really don't know what I was thinking :/ might just as well have planned to launch myself there propelled by a can of fizzy drink :\
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Message 1976189 - Posted: 21 Jan 2019, 7:54:44 UTC

No lunar eclipse visible in Russia, sadly.
AND it's very grey and very overcast.
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Message 1976197 - Posted: 21 Jan 2019, 8:42:49 UTC - in response to Message 1976190.  

At -2C it was ----ing cold! Still -1C now.

Is it very humid over there for the weather to feel cold? Also windy, perhaps?
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Message 1976219 - Posted: 21 Jan 2019, 12:59:47 UTC - in response to Message 1976201.  

Very high in the sky here in Tennessee. Started about 9:30 PM. Very thin, wispy, fast moving clouds spoiling a clear view==also cold here : 23 Fahrenheit, and I couldn't find our 2 pairs of binoculars. Watched till about 1/3 covered. Less spectacular and more uncomfortable than I would have liked.
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Message 1976265 - Posted: 21 Jan 2019, 15:40:36 UTC

AS luck would have the moon disappeared behind a cloud 20 min before total. No red moon for me.
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Message 1976281 - Posted: 21 Jan 2019, 16:31:03 UTC

I had the luck, that the cloud started to break up and I got a few glimpses, but at the same time it started to rain harder.
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Message 1976289 - Posted: 21 Jan 2019, 16:43:24 UTC

Here in northern California, overcast broke intermittently , allowing a brief view of the Lunar eclipse at about 50 percent, and then again later for totality. When the Moon was covered in clouds they gave a multicolored rainbow-like effect; very pretty. At totality, as usual, the orangey tint made the full moon look more three dimensional than it usually does, especially through binoculars.
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Message 1976334 - Posted: 21 Jan 2019, 21:56:48 UTC

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Message 1976375 - Posted: 22 Jan 2019, 3:15:20 UTC

As it turned out it was perfectly clear over central Florida Sunday night and the eclipse reached totality around midnight. I watched the last bit of brightness disappear and then hurried back inside. I wonder, is there still any science to be gleaned from scientific observation of a lunar eclipse, or is one just something interesting to watch?
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Message 1976377 - Posted: 22 Jan 2019, 3:33:18 UTC - in response to Message 1976375.  

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Message 1976380 - Posted: 22 Jan 2019, 4:05:24 UTC - in response to Message 1976334.  
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Forgot to add these from APOD (2nd link is a video from a 2018 eclipse but it shows very well its progression)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190119.html
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190120.html

And for good measure...

Police: Florida officer ran over pair lying in road to watch lunar eclipse
https://wvah.com/news/nation-world/police-florida-officer-ran-over-pair-lying-in-road-to-watch-lunar-eclipse

Lunar eclipse 2019 photo sets
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/21/687102307/photos-super-blood-moon-wows
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/photographers-get-super-views-super-blood-wolf-moon-eclipse-even-seattle/
https://www.space.com/43063-super-blood-wolf-moon-2019-thrills-skywatchers.html
https://www.space.com/43074-super-blood-wolf-moon-2019-eclipse-skywatcher-photos.html
As it turned out it was perfectly clear over central Florida Sunday night and the eclipse reached totality around midnight. I watched the last bit of brightness disappear and then hurried back inside. I wonder, is there still any science to be gleaned from scientific observation of a lunar eclipse, or is one just something interesting to watch?
Party pooper here: I heard an expert comment that the reddish color was caused by Earth's atmospheric contaminants, and that to his knowledge no studies used this phenomena's metrics to study how it correlated with other standard atmospheric studies. Makes sense since we know violently beautiful sunsets are "improved" by the density of air pollutants...  =:/
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