Did anyone see the lunar eclipse?

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:57 pm

I woke up 2:22AM this morning and caught some of the total lunar eclipse. It was placed very high in the sky here. I didn't see much color to it. I saw a slight orange tint to it, but hardly any. The southwestern edge was still bright around 2:25 AM when I snapped these quick, mediocre photos with my point and shoot:

Behold! The blurry moon behind a power pole and tree:

A more distant shot of the moon's waning southern edge:

Later the moon darkened down and the bright edge became dark. But even during totality I could barely catch any orange color. The moon remained rather easy to see in the sky. So overall this felt like a fairly average total lunar eclipse appearance-wise - it wasn't too dark or very bright, but somewhere in the middle.

Someday I'll buy a digital SLR and be able to take REAL digital pictures of such things.

HotIce · Post by **HotIce** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 3:50 pm

at 5:42am there were clearish skies by my folks house, and I woke up and went out to look at the moon, hoping to snap some pics of it. But it wasn't dark/bright red enough for my camera to get a good shot of it. Then when I went back out 45mins later at what was supose to be the peak colour for the moon... the skies were cloud covered, and it was nothing but grey everywhere i looked. =(

I've been wanting to buy a digital SLR, but like almost everything else, that is going to have to go on the back burners.

JuniorMintKiss · Post by **JuniorMintKiss** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:30 pm

I saw it announced on the local news and then totally forgot about it. But when my husband woke up for work this morning, I saw the last little bit of it.

Ooh...aah...

aernath · Post by **aernath** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:32 pm

JuniorMintKiss wrote:Ooh...aah...

LOL!!!

Had to make a flight this morning, and our place just doesn't have good viewing skies.

(Lotsa gorgeous trees though.

)
I'm afraid my skywatching equipment is going to collect a lot of dust here in Orlando.

minigt · Post by **minigt** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:22 pm

It started at 7:45pm here in Australia and was pretty amazing. They even covered it live on Foxtel (Cable TV) for those who couldn't be bother to walk outside!

kittens · Post by **kittens** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:48 am

I knew it was but when I noticed it was too late

I always miss it

Sugarflower · Post by **Sugarflower** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:18 pm

I didn't even know there was going to be one.

I saw one a year or two ago which was the first I ever saw and that was by chance. Hopefully next year I'll remember to catch it.

~Sugar

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:04 pm

Didn't know about it till next day lol

duotrouble · Post by **duotrouble** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 6:12 pm

I was going to watch it but it decided to rain at my house. I can't complain though. We're in a serious drought with record setting temperatures so I didn't really mind missing this eclipse.