The lunar eclipse
 

Well, I've been a good boy and carried out a search to make sure that no one else has started a thread on this subject (unless they've avoided using the words lunar or eclipse, that is) so I thought I'd mention it as it becomes full in about 30 minutes. The sky hereabouts looks like it might be clear.

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it's pretty clear here too Theo, hopefully I'll be able to see it - thanks for reminding me :)

and put that silver bullet away, you won't need it - ooogh, argh, no!!! - owoooooooooh :D

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Well, It's ink black here. I doubt it will last 30 minutes untill the flood gates open...

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Cloudy here so have to make do with old pictures of previous eclipses.

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A blood-red moon....just as Revelations describes..... :pp :D :angel:

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southernish sky?

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Blast... it's cloudy here atm. :(

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Looks like the sky's finally beginning to clear here in NE Hants, so I've got my camera on a tripod (to prevent camera shake as the night-shooting modes use a slow shutter speed). Here's hoping for some good shotsââ‚ƚ¬Ã‚¦

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Cloudy and light here :rolleyes:

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yes, it's still quite low in the sky, I'd be able to see better if there wasn't a tree in the way, quite bright, though :)

- it's hard typing in the dark :erm:

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The moon, like the sun, does go through colours from red, yellow and then white as it rises above the horizon anyway.
Most of the time though it's above the horizon before the sun has gone down enough.

Now here's an astronomical question, which happens more often, a lunar eclipse, or a solar eclipse?

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I cant see nowt in the sky, its too dark...lol

Nothing showing up north.

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Did you cheat and use google?

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lol - I was looking at a street light earlier :dozey:

I can see it now, though, more burnt sienna than blood red atm

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Me??? :Yikes: Cheat???? :Yikes: .......yes ;)

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Yeah, it's fairly obvious that this incident isn't the one John wrote about :)

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Got a few fairly nice pics already. Would be nice if I had a better zoom lens on my camera though. I'll get a few with the red filter turned on which should bring out the colour nicely. I'll post them a bit later (I don't want to take the camera off the tripod yet)

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Bad man!


Russ, maybe he just got the scale wrong, check down the back of the sofa incase a mini apocalypse is going on ;)

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It certainly looks nice through a set of binoculars :)

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No, we'll need a world-wide earthquke first :angel:

Just been out to take a look - fairly cloudless but I can't see it :(

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Hang on, just had an afterthought...anyone seen Day of the Triffids??

Didn't 99% of the world go blind after watching something like this???

*closes the curtains

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"That's no moon. It's a space station!" :shocked:


Sorry.

Where's the "I'll get my coat..." smiley.....

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can't find my compass, (it's dark), but I estimate it is east, about 45° above the horizon.

<edit> coming out of 'totality', now, noticeably brighter at the bottom.

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Yeah, just clocked it now - it looks like the bit of your thumbnail that you're left with after you've attacked it with nail clippers! :D

I thought it would be more red than that - it's almost totally white :(

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OK, give me a bit to import and crop the pics I took and I'll upload them. I got some nice shots of when it was reddish-coloured :)

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before the white bit happened, when the eclipse was 'total', you could see the rest of it more clearly, it was more dark orange than anything, now the sun is starting to reflect off the moon again, that colour is suppressed, I can still see the whole disc, though. I reckon you may have more 'light pollution', where you are, Russ?

Probably 50/50 light / dark now, looks like Ramrod's avatar :)

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Just saw the last bit. Murky grey/brown rather than blood red :(

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Ok, I'm off for a wander outside, hope it's not cloudy

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http://homepage.mac.com/lwernham/.Pi...lipse%2001.png

http://homepage.mac.com/lwernham/.Pi...lipse%2002.png

http://homepage.mac.com/lwernham/.Pi...lipse%2003.png

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I saw a flashing light which turned out to be a plane coming into land at Manchester Airport :( No sign of any eclipse, feel deprived now and it'd dead cloudy too and raining

Off to sulk in the bath

Brill pics though :tu:

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Brilliant pictures Mimizuku no Lew :tu:

pretty much what I could see, but magnified - remind me not to ask how much your camera cost :D

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Not as much as you'd expect. I got it for a shade under £170 in the January sales at PC World. The reason the pics came out so well is that I googled for a page that had tips on the correct settings for taking pics of lunar eclipses (ISO settings and all that stuff). The first pics I took (before I checked out that page) didn't come out too well, but once I adjusted the sensitivity they came out lovely as you can see. :)

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Where's that brain box Xaccers to give me some astrophysics lessons ??

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you mean he can look into your eyes, while you look at the stars j/k

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I bet these were out in full voice last night...