Partial Lunar Eclipse

There's a partial lunar eclipse currently visible on this side of the planet. And this time it is a clear night and I get to see it. (Still disappointed that I missed the total lunar eclipse last July).

Explanation with ponies:

EOnce in a Rainbow Moon

• MLP: FiM
• Slice of Life

One night in the crystal empire, Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash decide to engineer a blue moon.

• Twilight
• Rainbow Dash
• Celestia
• Luna
• Flurry Heart

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Comments

[Herald of Opera]

"Explanation with ponies" sums up most of your story catalog, doesn't it?

[Booster Spice]

just watched the ISS go over as well. Apparently it gets too duim for me to see by the time it reaches the horizon, brighter than Mag Zero.

At least I managed to see the partial moon, Stelarrium keeps saying its 100% illuminated from the UK, and just glimpsed it through a dip in the opposing roofline.

I know I missed seeing it a couple years ago because the exact time I looked out, it was behind the mill chimney.

Pony terms?

Discord playing with the scenery again?

[Fluttercheer]

I would love to go outside and see it, but I have already scheduled to finally watch "Rainbow Roadtrip" more often tonight, after my Patreon launch preparations have made that impossible so far, and I've only heard about the eclipse from the newspaper in the evening hours.
I really need to subscribe to some site that lists such upcoming, astronomical events, otherwise I'll be missing them for the rest of my life.

[hawthornbunny]

Ah! Dammit, I think I actually saw this out of the window earlier and didn't realize that it was the partial eclipse - I thought it was just a phase. I knew something looked off about it!

I went out just now and caught the end of it at least. :)

[Shrink Laureate]

Gah. Same as 5089720, I saw the moon and thought it looked a bit odd on my way home tonight, but didn't put 2 and 2 together.

[Georg]

For our solar eclipse, my wife dragged me into the van, we traveled about an hour north, then a half-hour west along dirt roads until I asked her, "Where are we going?" and she said "I don't know, someplace where we can watch it, I guess."

I got back on the highway and we went to Marysville. The disadvantage of "Yes, dear"-ing too much and not asking, I suppose.

[Pineta]

5089712
That's what I do.

5089717
Very cool to see the ISS and a partial lunar eclipse in one night. I should have watched out for that too.

5089718
Eclipses are sufficiently predictable that you can look them up and note them in your diary for the rest of your life

5089720 5089752
Glad you got to see it

5089766
For a total solar eclipse it is worth it. I took a ten hour flight, but then just took a chance that it wouldn't be cloudy at my chosen spot. I knew someone who changed his plans on the day and drove 300km to another state because the weather forecast was better there.

[iisaw]

Nice!

I got a couple of pics... not from the Temple of Dianna, unfortunately, but the was a nice castle wall in the shot!