MOPS ... Members Of the Public That partial lunar eclipse was a really beautiful one. Where we were it appeared over the hillside* horizon at about 10:30 ish looking like a big orange boat sitting on the hillside ..... but not on my pathetic photographs. Though you can, should you wish to, blow them up by holding down the Ctrl key and whizzing that mouse-wheel round. What happens on Macs I don't know. ..and I've no idea what happened on this one .... well, I tried to use the "blowy-up-thing. Quite a few local people turned up, and got a gawp at it through my binoculars that have been to Lithuania, have I ever mentioned that, and went "oooh" and "aaah" and I kindly pointed out Jupiter and Saturn to them in a "mansplaining" sort of way, and a female Tawny Owl was making its noises up in the wood, and bats whizzed by our earholes. Why didn't I bring my jellyscope ? Well .... as you all know, when you bring your telescope, it rains. So I didn't, and it didn't. Spode's Law. What music goes with that then ? Moon River ? The Planets ? Nope. Proper music ... that's what we want....... * It is a drumlin actually .....
.....not just any old hillside.
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