Sunrise at Newgrange

[ross4life]

Worth a watch tomorrow morning

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1220/newgrangefeature.html

[Denn Forever]

Its at around 08.45.  Thank god sunrise will be earlier from tomorrow on.

[ziggysego]

I'll watch it in bed, via my iPhone 4 

[Orior]

Its a pity the boys who built Newgrange are not still around - they's get a job carting and shovelling salt.

[ross4life]

Ahh well unfortunately a misty morning prevented us seeing the sun light up the inside of Newgrange 

[Banana Man]

did you's mexican's see the lunar eclipse or was it only visible from the north? first time in 300 odd years seemingly, have to say it was a bit eerie especially against the backdrop of the unusual Arctic conditions, at on point i was waiting for the 4 headless horsemen of the Apocalypse 

[ziggysego]

First time in 300 years? You sure about that? I recall one in 1994(ish), give or take a year.

[Banana Man]

First time in 300 years? You sure about that? I recall one in 1994(ish), give or take a year.

not sure zig just going by what was said on bbc breakfast news this morning, then i think on cool fm it said 500 years ffs

[Orior]

I think they mean a lunar eclipse happening on the shortest daylight day of the year

[Aerlik]

Wasn't it something to do with it being a "horizontal" eclipse when both the sun and moon are visible in the sky?  There's another word for that which I forget, beginning with s.

[Armaghtothebone]

First time in 300 years? You sure about that? I recall one in 1994(ish), give or take a year.

That was a solar eclip[se in 94 Ziggy.
This one is a lunar eclipse.

[ziggysego]

First time in 300 years? You sure about that? I recall one in 1994(ish), give or take a year.

That was a solar eclip[se in 94 Ziggy.
This one is a lunar eclipse.

You sure? I remember looking at it, in the middle of the night. The moon turned red.

[fingerbob]

First time in 300 years? You sure about that? I recall one in 1994(ish), give or take a year.

That was a solar eclip[se in 94 Ziggy.
This one is a lunar eclipse.

The solar eclipse that was best viewed from Ireland anyway, happened around 1999-2000ish?

[J70]

Unless I imagined it, I've seen at least one (and maybe two) lunar eclipses from Ireland (I'm not old!). The 300 years number is bollocks.

[Maguire01]

It's the first time in 300 odd years that it has fallen on the winter solstice.