Anyone else waiting for an eclipse ? / mad

[MalcolmInN]

With luck it will help me to retain some sanity

Why on earth would you want that to happen?
I was relying on you being one of the few truly mad members of this parish

me too

Anyone else mad enough to be waiting up ?

I must be mad, I've seen so many since the '50s, but after all I've said over the years about the vagaries of the British Wx I feel obliged to watch this one as well,
I must be truly mad in the Enoch sense,

Now we watch for the clouds to roll in, the Wx Gods having heard me /

PS dont believe all this media hype about a super-moon, the % difference will not be noticable to the unpracticed eye without a filar micrometer eyepiece.

[D1042 Western Princess]

Being involved with 'minor party' politics I am very used to the utter rubbish trotted out as 'facts' by our media - the 'super moon' is just another example of their lies and exaggeration, albeit in another context.
We could once believe what out reporters told us but those days are long gone - sadly.
As to staying up, I do not think I will, but I did look out a few minutes ago to a beautiful, clear night so those who do, for once, should not have problems with our weather.
Good luck to those staying up.

[Trainfish]

What time are they doing it?

[MalcolmInN]

Being involved with 'minor party'
Good luck to those staying up.

Sharp intake of breath ! I fear we may need another topic to do justice to Jeremy and Nigel 

but to be fair - the facts of the 'super' moon and its orbit are true, just not the bit about it being noticable to yer average joe ( and i dont mean that in a superior manor, just a convenient economy of keyboard )
I have in my archives (for another thread / time ) a composite pic of the moon at perigee and apogee and the difference is notable,
but simply just not noticable to when - out there watching unaided eye -

[MalcolmInN]

What time are they doing it?

Umm good Q !
Shortly ! ,,
I think first contact about 1:30 local UK
begining of totality about 3am >

give me a mo. I'll look the usuall sites >>>

[railsquid]

Moon has already woken up and gone off to work here in the Orient.

[railsquid]

Being involved with 'minor party' politics I am very used to the utter rubbish trotted out as 'facts' by our media - the 'super moon' is just another example of their lies and exaggeration, albeit in another context.

The moon is a giant hoax anyway.

[Trainfish]

What time are they doing it?

Umm good Q !
Shortly ! ,,
I think first contact about 1:30 local UK
begining of totality about 3am >

give me a mo. I'll look the usuall sites >>>

I've just got out of the shower. Do I have approval to wander around the garden in my bath robe to see it?

[Trainfish]

Being involved with 'minor party' politics I am very used to the utter rubbish trotted out as 'facts' by our media - the 'super moon' is just another example of their lies and exaggeration, albeit in another context.

The moon is a giant hoax anyway.

Not so! It fell into our local 'pond' in Devizes many years ago. Story here.

[MalcolmInN]

http://www.mreclipse.com/MrEclipse.html

He is the man ! (naff name but he has been doing pictorials for years now )

[MalcolmInN]

What time are they doing it?

Umm good Q !
Shortly ! ,,
I think first contact about 1:30 local UK
begining of totality about 3am >

give me a mo. I'll look the usuall sites >>>

I've just got out of the shower. Do I have approval to wander around the garden in my bath robe to see it?

Certainly not !
What do you need the bath robe/towel for ?

[Trainfish]

I've been ordered to cover up after the last time. But that's a story for another day......................

[MalcolmInN]

Oh "burgher" we are still on bst ! so add 1hr to Fred's gmt times !! rats.

[MalcolmInN]

I've been ordered to cover up after the last time. But that's a story for another day......................

We boggle ! , ,  but we have another hour to go 'for anything else exciting happens so carry on , , , !

me - my neighbours are so far away they coldna' see nohow, especially when, in summer, the leaves are on the trees,
too much info,
te dum te dum,

it's still bright AND COLD out there !

[railsquid]

I've been ordered to cover up after the last time. But that's a story for another day......................

That was the time people really did think the moon had fallen into Devizes?