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Alice, I miss a lot of eclipses too, simply because I just go to be so early!! I have a hard time staying up past 9pm LOL!!! So this last one was timed pretty good for me - though for you it would have been three hours later - I would not have been able to stay up for it if I'd been on the east coast 
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BellaOnline Editor Renaissance Human
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Yes, Alice and Deanna, I've lost track of the end-of-the-world things. The internet seems to encourage it, because anybody can pick up any bit of nonsense and pass it on. I do remember on the day of one well-publicized doomsday, it was a beautiful day here, and a friend and I were sipping wine by the riverside, watching the boats and waterfowl come and go. I proclaimed it the Best End of the World yet. And I don't think we've had any so good since then either.
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A lovely picture of the total lunar eclipse on September 27. The perigee Moon has been captured by Aubrey Gemignani along with the Washington Monument. Nice one.
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This is a first! French astrophotographer Thierry Legault is the stuff of legends, and here's yet another reason why. He photographed the International Space Station transiting the Moon during the recent lunar eclipse. Here is a montage of images taken during the eclipse as seen from Rambouillet, France. The ISS took 1.7 seconds to pass in front of the Moon.
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Here's the partially eclipsed Moon rising above Joshua Tree, California. Dramatic and beautiful. (Image credit: Pauline Acalin)
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Well, we were just comparing end-of-the-world notes and lo and behold! I've just got another one on FB today. But today's the day, so not much warning on this one. Though it hasn't happened so far and I'd already gone for a flu shot before I went online.
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It's no longer October 7 anywhere on Earth, but it does seem that we're still here. Something to be grateful for! 
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GREAT! I can still go to the beach this weekend! LOL
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And I can go to Norway.
Have a good weekend, Allyson.
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I can keep writing my novel.
Allyson and Mona - Great times to you both!
Michelle Anne Cope
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