Eclipse

There's a lunar eclipse happening right now........just in case anyone is into that kind of thing.

Cloudy here in this hell hole. (Stuck in new england again.)

u can barely see it here, too many clouds.

clear sky here.................can see it very clear

I looked and couldnt see anything. Youre making this up and laughing at us arent you?

It was really clear here. I sat outside and watched it happen. Very cool.

I took some pictures but at 40X magnification and a 15 second aperture opening on my point and shoot camera it's just an orange blur. It's kind of neat to see it moving at 40x magnification.

We have low clouds on the eastern horizon, but the moon emerged up out of the clouds before the eclipse reached maximum.


As it got free of the clouds, the shadow line became more distinct.


Getting there.

I watched it tonight.
Clear skies and a full moon before it all began.

...And for those of you wondering if it turned out ok ...

Saturn (lower left) lifted out of the clouds just past the mid point of the eclipse.


Nearly there.


All done, back to a full moon overhead.

Great pictures! thanks

Here are my "artisitc" pictures of the event. (Note: artisitic means I haven't studied the manual on my camera very well)

We were outside last night watching it (which is why I was not posting). Sitting outside when the temps are hovering just above 0-degrees (F) is probably not the smartest thing to do but it was still fun . . . until one of my S-I-L's dogs ran into the woods and we thought it was tangling with a wild critter and the lovely Mrs_B went running, slid on the ice, went down on the concrete patio like 2 tons of steel falling off the back of a truck (not a graceful sight at all) and thought she broke something. That sort of put an end to the festivities. Thankfully neither Mrs_B nor the concrete patio suffered any lasting damage! Don't know what happened to my S-I-L's little doggy, but as I didn't hear any additional screaming I'm gathering it returned from the woods unharmed?

Why does it seem that so many of the interesting lunar events occur in the middle of winter!?!

PBinWA said:

Here are my "artisitc" pictures of the event.

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Gorgeous! Those are artistic, showing the surroundings. You have a good eye for composition.

One more. I was purging the card and found I had one 'artistic' picture too!

Well at least this documents that it was a hazy, cloudy evening.


Here's how the pros do it:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1033&thread=26877524
(click within his photo to see the entire width)