3:52 eastern time
4:52 central time
5:52 mountain time
6:52 pacific time

I have to see if my daughter wants to get up at 4:30 to watch it tomorrow! I don't work until 1:30pm, so I would have time to get up, watch it, catch the sunrise and go back to bed! LOL!

By Colette on Monday, August 27, 2007 - 04:39 pm:

3:52???

getting up at 5am to get everyone ready for the first day of school...not sure if I can get up an extra hour earlier!!

By Dawnk777 on Monday, August 27, 2007 - 05:02 pm:

LOL! I don't think I would do it then, either! No school here, until next week Tuesday, though.

By Tink on Monday, August 27, 2007 - 05:19 pm:

I'll be getting up at 6:30 anyway but I'm not sure how well I'll be able to see the moon that late. I will take a peek, though.

By Crystal915 on Monday, August 27, 2007 - 05:24 pm:

We'll be up to see it, but only because we're off work tomorrow anyway.

By Enchens on Monday, August 27, 2007 - 07:06 pm:

I'm hoping to be able to see it too.

According to SPACE.com there are different phases. The article stated that the Moon enters the umbra at 4:51 a.m. EDT (1:51 a.m. PDT). Totality begins at 5:32 EDT (2:52 PDT) and ends after sunrise on the East coast and at 4:22 a.m. PDT.

Hope this info helps some.

By Tink on Monday, August 27, 2007 - 07:15 pm:

Ok, I'm confused. I thought I'd be able to see it at 6:52am on the West Coast, according to Dawn's info, but Nancy's says I'll be seeing it at 2:52am. Can anyone clear this up for me?

By Enchens on Monday, August 27, 2007 - 08:53 pm:

From what I understand, (I'm on the West Coast as well) is that it will start for us around 1:51AM. Then, it's a total eclipse starting around 2:52AM and it lasts about an hour and a half or so. It ends around 4:22AM.

Now, I don't know if ends means that's it, it's over, or if it means it starts to "uneclipse" (if that's a word). I've never seen one, so I really am hoping to catch this one.

You can go to space.com and click on Nightsky for the article that I read. There is also a narrated video. On their homepage, find where it says Multimedia (right column) and click on the lunar eclipse.

Hope this helps a bit more.

By Annie2 on Monday, August 27, 2007 - 10:10 pm:

Okay, big debate here. Does the sun cover the moon or does the moon cover the sun, in a lunar eclipse? Can we look at a lunar eclipse or is the solar eclipse the one we can not look at directly? TIA

By Dawnk777 on Monday, August 27, 2007 - 10:39 pm:

I think I got the times backwards! I was in a hurry, posting at work! LOL!

5:52 Eastern time
4:52 Central time
3:52 Mountain time
2:52 Pacific time!

I knew the 4:52 time for central time was correct, because I heard it on the radio this morning. I just extrapolated incorrectly!

By Bobbie~moderatr on Monday, August 27, 2007 - 11:00 pm:

Solar eclipse is when the moon travels between the Sun and the Earth, blocking the Sun’s light from the Earth in the middle of the day, and generally giving the appearance of a ring of light in the darkened sky. Do not look at that one dirrectly... LOL

Lunar eclipse, the moon moves into the shadow of the Earth during night time hours, gradually blocking the view of the moon form the Earth. and is safe to look at with the naked eye..

By Karen~admin on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 08:35 am:

I was up and tried to see it, but there are so many trees, etc. around my house, I never could even find the moon! LOL I was walking around in the driveway, yard and street in my robe, all by myself.

Did anyone actually see it?

They showed some film on the news @ 6 this morning.

By Enchens on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 10:05 am:

I'm going to go to bed for a quick nap before the boys wake up. I actually had a great view from our backyard. I took some pics, but I don't think they came out so good.

It was pretty amazing to see our house going from being flooded with silver light from the moon to no light at all. I'm going to try to catch the late morning news and see what view they show.

Anyway, goodnight, for a bit. lol

By Dawnk777 on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 12:47 pm:

I tried to get up, but my alarm wasn't having much of an impression on my brain, until it had been ringing every 7 minutes, for half-an-hour. By that time it was all over with. I was just too tired.

By Joy~bundles on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 01:09 pm:

I saw it! It was really cool!! I watched from around 4:20am CST, and I could still see the bottom of the moon peeking out before it was entirely covered by the shadow by 4:52am. It looked like a perfect, dark circle in the sky, with orange-ish and dark hues. I heard the next lunar eclipse will be in February, 2008.

By Enchens on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 02:54 pm:

Yup! I hope to have semi-mastered our camera by then.

By Crystal915 on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 03:52 am:

I caught it, and got the kids up for a few minutes of it. It was really neat!!! I was telling Madison about the orbits of the earth and moon, and she shook her head back and forth quickly to make the moon "move". It was really adorable, she thought I was nuts when I told her we're spinning and orbiting!

By Colette on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 06:02 am:

I was up, but the trees were covering the moon so I was unable to see it.

By Annie2 on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 10:50 am:

Thanks, Bobbie....16 year old dd won the debate. Smarty pants lol
I was up but it was too cloudy here for me to see anything. The kids wanted me to wake them up but I didn't bother since there was nothing to view. Next year!