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West Coast had best seat for total lunar eclipse - CNN.com
The moon disappeared from view along the U.S. West Coast on Saturday amid a total lunar eclipse.
Asia, Australia, and other areas of the Pacific had the best visibility. European countries only saw a partial eclipse of a rising moon, while northwestern North America saw a partial eclipse of a setting moon. Due to air pollution around major metropolitan cities, the eclipsed moon had a reddish appearance, while, in more rural, less-populated areas, the eclipse was more clear.
- December 2011 lunar eclipse
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Lunar eclipse as seen over the Peninsular Ranges of Southern California, just before moonset. -
Lunar eclipse over Modi'in, Israel. -
Lunar eclipse from Medford, Oregon -
Lunar eclipse at Seoul, -
End of Lunar Eclipse from Holland, 12 images merged - Lunar eclipse seen from Shanghai, China
Related eclipses : It was preceded by the partial solar eclipse of November 25, 2011. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.
This eclipse was visible across Antarctica in its summer 24 hour day sunlight, and New Zealand near sunset with less than 20% of the sun obscured. Parts of the western Antarctic Peninsula experienced nearly 90% obscuration of the sun.
This was the last of four partial solar eclipses in 2011, with the others occurring on January 4, 2011, June 1, 2011, and July 1, 2011.
Lunar year (354 days)
This eclipse is the one of four lunar eclipses in a short-lived series. The lunar year series repeats after 12 lunations or 354 days (shifting back about 10 days in sequential years). Because of the date shift, the Earth's shadow will be about 11 degrees west in sequential events.
| Ascending node | Descending node | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saros # ----- Photo | Date Viewing | Type chart | Saros # ----- Photo | Date Viewing | Type chart | |
| 110 | 2009 July 07 | penumbral | 115 | 2009 Dec 31 | partial | |
120 | 2010 June 26 | partial | 125 | 2010 Dec 21 | total | |
130 | 2011 June 15 | total | 135 | 2011 Dec 10 | total | |
| 140 | 2012 June 04 | partial | 145 | 2012 Nov 28 | penumbral | |
| 150 | 2013 May 25 | penumbral | ||||
| Last set | 2009 Aug 06 | Last set | 2009 Feb 9 | |||
| Next set | 2013 Apr 25 | Next set | 2013 Oct 18 | |||
Saturday before dawn (around 2 am) I was jolted from sleep. I felt tired such as I had already done a journey to a very far and high place. My right arm was painful, just like something had been holding it very tight and it put my right arm back as before, clutching my stomach. I had landed from a trip to fly to the sky of red, pink, orange and purple. In the sky I called the God's name out loud and worshipped His greatness by allowing me to fly this time, brought by the supernatural powers. I saw a bunch of the darkness clouds and I flew over it. I saw the sun in a sitting position on the horizon sky, orange-colored shaded of golden yellow, red and purple. I didn't know, it was there to rise or go west, but it seemed the beauty would take place as it was. I continued to fly.
I could not describe the next scene, because you would have thought I was hallucinating. Actually I also didn't know what happened to me, but after I lost the dream, I could not stand it any longer. I was trying to channel this feeling into tears. Crying alone at night was the best thing I could do at that time. I heard my breathing sounded so slow, but I told to myself, "I'm not dead, yet."
I still remembered it clearly, the message of intangible sound which was specially ordered for me --- I said it was special for me because I saw no one in the sky, or maybe because I could not see the others, I did not know --- during my flight to enjoy the beauty of the vast sky.
In such dimension, I felt very free in time. The time which took place in bits and pieces. Immortality was in the dimensional pieces, something that didn't bring me in continuous time, because those were the things that bound me, burdened me. I was warned. When the time has come for me, then I will enter the dimension of life. What I experienced and thought about all this, what I felt for this was the only man-made. I was warned not to be too deep to these things, because they were not the real things.
I was fully awake when I saw my lover's face was still sleeping next to me, in the shadows of our bedroom. His hairy back was right in front of my face. I hugged it without intending to make him awake from his sleep. I do not like to interfere with one's dreams, or to stop someone who is dreaming. No, it's not my favourite act. (Dahling, when you woke up next morning, would you share your dreams with me?)
I know, he and I will be separated from each other, later. If today I am still with him, I hear my heart says I love him. This feeling ties me into a continuous time and the same mind, my body is not free anymore. Unlike before, I did not have any love and desire other than to enjoy the beauty of the sky when flying. I was free.
A piece of time in an alarm clock on the bedside table next to me was showing at 2:20. The sun was still making its night when the moon became bluish red in their time's wings.
*****
(CZ-midnightinterlude-lacalifusa121111)
A furtive tear
Slipped from her eye ...
Those festive young women
Seemed to provoke her envy ...
What more could I want?
What more could I want?
She loves me, she loves me; I see that, I see that ...
For just one moment if I could feel
The beating of her heart!
With her sighs briefly
Mingling with mine!
Hearing her heartbeat merging with mine
Her sighs one with mine!
Heaven, then I could simply die!
I couldn't ask for more.
Oh! Heaven, then I could simply die ...
I couldn't ask for more.
I could simply die, loving and being loved.
*) romance of the stage II, scene 2, entitled Italian opera L'Elisir d'amore
Merci pour votre musique douce et mélodieuse, mon petit chou. Je te souhaite plein de bonne chose.
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