Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Don't forget tonight's total lunar eclipse!

Don't forget tonight's total lunar eclipse, my peeps!

As the map at left shows, the eclipse will be visible from Europe, West Africa, and the Americas. (map source and related article, with lots of useful details, at Sky & Telescope.)

You'd think professional astronomers would be vigilant about such natural phenomena, but half the folks in my department didn't know. And I learned about it from my humble local newspaper. I guess our thoughts are focused too narrowly on redshift three.