The webcast looks pretty neat, I’ve just scanned through it so far but will watch the whole thing in a bit.

Maybe you need the Spaceweather Phone. Gosh, I got up (thankfully coffee is a diueretic) at 2-ish. I was wondering why you weren’t online; I thought that maybe you were either having issues with the feed, then it occured to me that you would have posted something. Darn, but they have the replays as you pointed out.

BTW, I updated the article with links to archived video of the eclipse in case anyone missed it. Glad those were available, because I slept through the coverage… my power apparently went off and back on during the night, which wiped out my alarm clock.

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Hey, I can subscribe to Spaceweather Phone.

Lol, can you see my cell phone ringing at 2:00 a.m.–”Get up! Hubble is passing over, ya lazy bum!” Forget that I can barely see anything from where I live. I might just try it for fun, though I’m not sure about giving my cell phone number out–it’s just there’s no way to reach me on my landline unless I’m at work.

I tend not to get up when I have to. In fact, I almost blew it Saturday morning. I was up at 1:00-ish, had to get in the shower at 3:00 a.m., then at 2:30 I said, oh let me just lie down for a second. I conked out. My wake up call came at 3:40! She was supposed to call me at 3:00. I had to be in the car at 4:00. Luckily it wasn’t essential that I showered, so I made it on time by guzzling coffee and playing the radio loudly. BTW, I knew that after five bad Saturdays this past one would be clear…of course. Watch it happen again this Saturday when I have to be somewhere again.

Lol….

“Most SpaceWeather Phone come around dinnertime, telling you what to watch for later that night: a meteor shower, a lunar eclipse, a space station flyby, etc. But some events are unexpected. They can happen any time–like 3 o’clock in the morning! Do you want us to wake you at that hour if a geomagnetic storm erupts and the sky fills with Northern Lights?”

For me it would be more like, “Do you want us to wake you if you can see a partial constellation?”

One thing I can’t help but think, coming freshly off listening to the audio version of Pale Blue Dot… Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith in The Matrix films sounds conspicuously like Sagan in terms of enunciation and delivery… just angrier and without the scientific musings.