The lunar eclipse

[jellybaby]

Originally Posted by Xaccers

Did you cheat and use google?

Me??? Cheat???? .......yes

[Russ]

Originally Posted by Xaccers

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.

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

[Lew]

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)

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by jellybaby

Me??? Cheat???? .......yes

Bad man!


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

[Lew]

It certainly looks nice through a set of binoculars

[Russ]

Originally Posted by Xaccers

Bad man!


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

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

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

[Russ]

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

[Tezcatlipoca]

Originally Posted by Mick

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

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


Sorry.

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

Originally Posted by Russ D

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

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

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.

[Russ]

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!

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

[Lew]

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

Originally Posted by Russ D

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!

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

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

[danielf]

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

[Marge]

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

[Lew]