Re: OT: Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight

["Stephen Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

I hopped up on the roof just before it started at 2130, f**king cold in 
the 
wind up there!  Despite a little brain damage on the part of the Sony 
camcorder regarding exposure settings, I got it all the way through 
totality, before 7-year-old batteries lied to me, saying that there was 
more 
time than actually remained.  Zoink, off went the thing.  I got it zoomed 
in, though thanks to the exposure problem it looks a bit grainy, and I had 
to correct gamma to see the rusty color of the moon.  All that has to be 
dealt with is the constant panning to fit in-frame, which one can adjust 
during later editing to make everything centered.

Wrote a blueprint for a long piece while up there, puffing away and moving 
the camera, and occasionally speaking line-of-thought pseudo-poetry into 
the 
mic on the camcorder.  There will be drums in this piece - and since my 
finger's much, much better (though not perfect, as I'm still getting used 
to 
not avoiding the use of it while playing), it shouldn't be too long before 
the new untitled piece is available in audio *and* video. :)

From: "Per Boysen" <perboysen@gmail.com>
> You Italians are so civilized! ;-)  I was lucky to look at my watch 
> exactly right on time and ran out on the street in way too cold  clothes 
> (snowy dark bright winter night) to have a peep at "the  orange colored 
> moon" but it looked just the same as usual. Don't know  if I was on 
>wrong 
> timing or geographically offside for the show, but  I enjoyed it anyway 
> ;-))   The web site was fascinating and simply  knowing things like that 
> do happen  once on a time out there is  inspiring. Thanks for the tip.
>
> Greetings from Sweden
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> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se (Swedish)
> www.looproom.com (international)
> http://tinyurl.com/2kek7h (latest music release)
>
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> On 4 mar 2007, at 20.29, L.A. Angulo wrote:
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>> i saw it sitting in front of the fire,very beautiful!
>> peace
>> Luis
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>> --- Stephen Goodman <spgoodman@earthlight.net> wrote:
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>>> For those of us who care:
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>>> Tonight the moon will be totally eclipsed
>>> world-wide.  Check your times!
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>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/myspace/nightsky/ 
>observingnotes.shtml
>>>
>>> S.
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