Huh!

[conuly]

Apparently there's going to be an eclipse tonight - or early tomorrow, rather - that, as it coincides with the solstice, promises to be spectacular.

Maybe I'll ask Jenn if she can wake Ana long enough to see it. At least I'll take a pic.

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[steorra]

Ooh - I hope the sky's clear. On the west coast where I am currently, it won't even be that late; if it starts at 1:15am on the east coast, it should start at 10:15pm here.

[Edited to correct 10:15am to 10:15pm]

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Where you are, totality begins at 2:41 AM, so if the girlies got up at about 2:30, they could watch that part, then go back to bed. Children don't seem to get very excited about eclipses - too slow a show to hold their attention, and they don't have a clear enough grasp of how it works to appreciate the kozmic awesomeness of it all - so just watching the most dramatic part suffices.

LOL, as a child my own girlie was always getting awakened and bundled up and hauled outdoors in the middle of the night to look at eclipses, comets, meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, the Northern lights, the rings of Saturn or whatever. I also woke her up to see Stephen Hawking on the "100 most influential people of the 20th century" program on New Years' Eve of 2000, and Leonardo da Vinci building a flying machine on Star Trek: Voyager, and other interesting nocturnal happenings. It's good for kids to have some night adventures, especially when they don't have school in the morning.

The Moon's up here, but only showing as a bright patch behind the clouds; I hope it clears before Showtime. Good luck with your viewing; have fun!

[conuly]

Well, they DO have school in the morning, as it happens. They also have a skylight, so waking up for a few minutes to see the eclipse (and pee, I always say that as long as you're up you might as well) shouldn't disrupt them too much.

We got woken up to see what happened at Waco and to see the fall of the Berlin Wall, neither of which I fully understood at the time though I do remember them clearly.