20th Feb 2008
Lunar eclipse…. cool stuff
Lunar eclipse happened tonight around 7pm. I decided to drive up onto the Burnaby Mountain to take a peek… just to have a break from my insanely busy work schedule. Got there around 6:30pm, not too many people, but some “pros” already had their tripods and all their gears ready to go. People started crowding up around 7pm since it was said that the “prime time” (which is the moon getting completely blocked due to that the sun/earth/moon are perfectly aligned in a straight line or something) would occur around 6:55pm. It was a bit cloudly but the killing thing was the coldness! I was totally froze up and my hands were all numb. I could barely hold up the camera and my telescope…
Anyway, took a couple pictures with my Canon G9 digital camera, and had it zoomed all the way up to 24X (optical + digital). The pictures were reasonably clear without using a tripod (I couldn’t believe that I actually forgot to bring one…) The photo with the moon appearing red-ish was the moment when it was completely blocked. Pretty cool stuff I would say despite the coldness 
Oh by the way, I was eating some Mcdonalds fries from the Junior Chicken value meal while gazing the moon with my car’s roof off. Can life be better than this? XD
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