Sunday, December 25, 2011
It's About Time...
It's about time...
Really...
After MANY years...
It's been missing...but I had to SEE it in order to realize what's been missing...
What I'm stoked about is LED Xmas lights that not only look like the traditional C7 type bulbs we used to have on Christmas trees decades ago, but they also now include a WHITE colored bulb...!!!
Modern LED Xmas light manufactures have overlooked the WHITE bulbs that we used to see...
But...I recently found some quite by accident...
I was doing some last minute shopping, looking for indcredible bargains, which for me includes looking at the LED Xmas light section...
I was at a hardware store I often patronize, and I noticed that just about ALL the colored LED lights were gone, leaving just the clear lights...
But I spied a couple of boxes of colored LED lights,and was estatic when I saw the white bulbs...
And they look GREAT...!!!
They're marketed under the "Smart Color LED" name, and were $10 per box of 25 lights, and they have a facebook page at www.facebook.com/creativeholidayliving
Back in the "old days" the incandescent C7 bulbs were the standard...and part of the ritual, after putting the lights on the tree, was re-arranging the colors by unscrewing the bulbs and moving the bulb colors around until pleased...
And WHITE bulbs were common on both indoor C7 and outdoor C9 bulbs...
With the advent of color LED Xmas lights, we had a splash of bright colors, but what was lacking was WHITE lights (not the harsh clear bulbs)...
I thank whomever it was with the foresight to include white bulbs...they look identicle to the incandescent white C7 bulbs from decades ago...
LED Xmas lights that say they're rated for outdoor use are not like the old fashioned screw in incandescent C9 light strings...thay just can't take being left out all year 'round...and they have a high rate of failure...and I end up replacing several LED Xmas light sets every year...
My future LED Xmas light replacements will be the new ones I just stumbled upon...
Happy Happy Joy Joy...!!!
Monday, December 12, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
Lunar Eclipse
Tonight (Saturday Morning)...
West Coast Times:
West Coast Times:
| Time (24-hour clock) | Object (Link) | Event |
|---|---|---|
 |  Lunar Eclipse | Position Angle=67.6°, Altitude=26.5° |
| Lunar Eclipse | Position Angle=210.7°, Position angle vertex=158.3°, Altitude=12.0° |
| Lunar Eclipse | Saros-Number: 135, Magnitude=1.110, Position angle=0.7°, Position angle vertex=310.2° Brightness: -2.5mag, Danjon scale L=3.5 (very bright) Duration total phase=52.3 minutes, Duration partial phase=212.9 minutes, Duration penumbral phase=359.8 minutes, ET-UT=66.6sec, Altitude=7.5° |
| Lunar Eclipse | Position Angle=150.6°, Position angle vertex=102.2°, Altitude=3.2° |
| Lunar Eclipse | Magnitude=0.772 |
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