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Is this what Nick Drake was talking about? Photo by leppre.
For the three science majors at Emerson, you might be interested in the event happening tonight in the cosmos. You better check it out, because the next time it’s going to happen is in December of 2010. So, get on the rooftops of your Allston apartments and look up– it’s a Total Lunar Eclipse. This, of course, is where the earth will block the light from the sun on the moon. It starts tonight at 8:43 PM ET, will reach it’s full eclipse at 10:01 PM ET until 10:51 PM ET, and fade away at 12:09 AM ET tomorrow morning.
The moon will appear red, and does not require any sort of special equipment (you know… those crazy glasses you need to see a solar eclipse) to view. Just look up into the sky. The cool thing is, it’ll block out a lot of light, so planets such as Saturn (which will be near the moon) will be visible during the eclipse. So, while you’re lighting your cigarettes outside of the LB, take a second and look into the sky. Too bad it won’t be light enough to look at the nude photos of Lindsay Lohan [NSFW] in New York Magazine. That was a completely tactless drop. Enjoy the eclipse.