Dont forget lunar eclipse tonight

Gaspode

Hey dont forget the moon will be hidden in the earths shadow tonight.
This is what it looked like from China a few hours ago. The moon is in the centre of the image.

Ruu_Old

Cool. See attached for mine, I missed it. *wanders off to the Photography forum*

faceman

this is so spooky! I was just about to post the same thing with the EXACT same thread name!!

Gone West

actually the moon should be turning a nice reddish colour fairly soon. A half hour or 35 mins should have it at its peak.

scojones

Over half of it is gone now. Bah my camera sucks.

constitutionus

sad fecker that i am im videoing it at the moment. well in segements so it flows better. ive always love astronomy but feel really sorry for astronomy ireland, everytime something cool happens they tell us to go out and have a look and invariably it clouds over at the last minute

they always build it up nicely as well " best meteor storm in a century!!", and nothing but clouds! still at least its a great night tonight

Trizo

pic so far .....

Wertz

just out in the back garden there now looking at it and noticed something odd....well maybe it's not that odd or maybe there's a reason for it but the time of the solar eclipse in 2000 (?) the sun was in the exact same place in the sky as where the moon is tonight (I know because I was looking at it from the same spot in the garden)
Probably one for the astronomy forum...

Faith

Should be turning red at about 22.45. Exciting!

andrew

just looked at it through some binoculars its amazing, the shadow makes it really stand out as a aphere rather then just a disc

constitutionus

really does look like mars what with the top part still being a little white. some amateur SF movie guys should be getting footage of this if they wanna do a cheap sci/fi film

Merrick

I was looking at it with binoculars too, it's fantastic. Multi-coloured shadows!

Zillah

I'm sure the lads over in the photography forum will have some better shots up later.

constitutionus

thats a gorgeous pic ! it moving out of the earths shadow now though so looks like the best is over. have to admit that it seemed alot darker than the last lunar eclipse we had (or at least we could see ). distinctly remember that one being near blood red and very bright. this one seems alot duller.

still its a spectacular sight, glad i stayed up to see it. got a kick seeing the three stars appear that were too close to the moon and were blocked out by its glare

Ghost Train

was great weather to watch the eclipse
moon.jpg

Gazza22

Zillah wrote:

I'm sure the lads over in the photography forum will have some better shots up later.

Really good quality, what did you take that with?

rogue-entity

It was pretty impressive alright, I had forgotten about it until it was mentioned on Sky News.. I missed the last one which was a good while back.

Zillah

Gazza22 wrote:

Really good quality, what did you take that with?

My D70s body with my Dad's old 200mm lens. My own longest lens is only 100mm so I had to improvise. I was balancing my camera on a disintegrating tripod on the peaked roof of our extension

JC 2K3

It was..... underwhelming tbh.

Black Swan

Twas a passionate Moon.

bluto63

Yea, it was pretty interesting alright. Glad I was reminded a couple of hours beforehand

shane86

The moon seemed to have shrank to penny size during the height of it from where I was, which pretty much put a downer on it.

InFront

The size of the moon doesn't actually change in the sky, it's just your mind playing games with you, a sort of optical illusion.

meowCat

I watched it all from my balcony. I thought it was very eery. You could just see how it would have scared ppl in the middle age or before ... it was very firery/copper red here....like a devil's eye.
It's just a pity that you need a really good equipment to take clear pictures of it.

shane86

InFront wrote:

The size of the moon doesn't actually change in the sky, it's just your mind playing games with you, a sort of optical illusion.

Jaysus I know that

Mind you I did wonder if anyone would take it incorrectly. I know FA about astronomy, but Id have put the shrinkage down to the moon moving further away from the earth over the course of the night?

Gazza22

Zillah wrote:

My D70s body with my Dad's old 200mm lens. My own longest lens is only 100mm so I had to improvise. I was balancing my camera on a disintegrating tripod on the peaked roof of our extension

Good results with that combination!