Comments on: Lunar eclipse Tuesday

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:00:03 +0000

I saw the eclipse. It was pretty cool, but most of the time there was a thin cloud over the Moon in the sky so we didn’t really see it too clearly. Still, it’s not every night you see a red moon. (Or reddish-orangey-brown)

By: Mikhail Bragoria

Mikhail Bragoria — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:37:25 +0000

*sigh* The light on my wrist-watch decided to fail during the eclipse

However, I realised that the moon didn’t look red at all while watching totality with my binoculars (it looked like a normal full moon – but much dimmer and fuzzier). As soon as I viewed totality with the naked eye, the redness returned. Anyone know why?

By: chimpanzee

chimpanzee — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:39:46 +0000

I did a LiveWebCast from Hungry Valley, CA (in the middle of the desert) using my mobile satellite-DSL equipped 4×4 van:

http://eclipsechaser.blogspot.com

I never intended to do the webcast thing, it came upon me as I was sitting through the partial umbral phase: Why not deploy the satellite dish (5 min operation) & start blogging? I was also surprised at the dramatic effect of the “stars coming out” during totality. One needs to experience a lunar eclipse in the outback (away from city lights).

I got some interesting wide-angle shots with the eclipsed moon against stars & Milky Way, those images will be posted soon. Also shot some video.

By: KaiYeves

KaiYeves — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:50:09 +0000

Woke up at just before five here in NY and went out to the porch with a friend. You know you’re up early when you see Orion in August. The top of the moon looked just “bitten off”, and as we waited, it all became covered in shadow. When the moon set, only a tiny, hair width of yellow moon at the bottom was unshadowed. I didn’t have a good camera, only my second-best pair of binoculars (My good ol’ 12x24s have been missing for a while, but these are still okay for maria viewing). Even though the moon was the umbra, we could see it’s outline through the binoculars. Very, very cool stuff.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:38:49 +0000

I had a clear view in southern California, though I’m paying for getting up at a ridiculous hour of the morning. Need…more…coffee…

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:27:20 +0000

Not bad from Sydney either. The last couple astronomical thingys I’ve tried to catch have been weatherly challenged. Tonight however there was a perfect 380000 odd kays or so of visibility. Looked good from the big coat hanger overlooking the opera house. Sux to be in Sydney sometimes.

By: Michael Verrenkamp

Michael Verrenkamp — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:03:05 +0000

It was an okay night here in Melbourne, Australia to see it, cloudy half the time but it was visible for at least half an hour, so not bad at all.

By: Mark Hansen

Mark Hansen — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:44:10 +0000

We had a really great night in Campbelltown, near Sydney, Aust. The Girl Guides loved seeing it, asked lots of questions (some easy to answer, some less so…), and not one “boring!” from any of them. There’s hope for kids yet.

By: 4mauihawaii

4mauihawaii — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:13:52 +0000

I just saw the most amazing sky night of my life. I live in Maui, Hawaii, on the rainforest side in Haiku. What a perfect night for the eclipse. Totally clear skys from around midnight until now. The orange color – amazing, the stars everywhere – we are out in the country, no city lights to mess with the view. Just at the very end 2:12 AM, now, there are clouds and the whiteness of the moon is shinning through.
What a blessing. Just wanted to share.

By: Harold

Harold — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:04:34 +0000

For all you sleepyheads, here’s what it looked like from Northeastern Pennsylvania:

http://anothermonkey.blogspot.com/2007/08/photos-of-lunar-eclipse-82807.html

By: Crux Australis

Crux Australis — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:37:39 +0000

10:37 here; bang on totality.

By: Crux Australis

Crux Australis — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:33:20 +0000

Great, clear skies above Palmerston North, New Zealand. Beautiful.

By: Nadia

Nadia — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:58:50 +0000

7:55pm AEST (Sydney)… beautiful. Took about an hour to go from bright white to reddish brown. Looks awesome.

By: sez

sez — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:37:49 +0000

wow its almost covered the whole moon on the gold coast in queensland its so exciting.

By: BH

BH — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:19:38 +0000

I’d also like to point out that Alaska is one of the 50 states. We should have a pretty good view tonight which is great, because we usually seem to get screwed on these kinds of things.

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By: Mark Hansen

Mark Hansen — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:08:47 +0000

Drbuzz0,
I don’t know if it is a strictly scientific use but this event can be used to get more people, especially kids, interested in science which can only be good for science.
I am setting up a 3″ reflector at my daughters Girl Guide meeting tonight. The timing was just perfect – the eclipse is on the same day as their meeting, the moon enters the umbra 20 minutes after their meeting starts, and the middle of the eclipse is right at the end of the meeting. The only possible problem is cloud but the skies have been fairly clear the last two days.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:29:53 +0000

in case your spam filter nicked my email,
the weather channel’s website has a nice image of the lunar eclipse up, just with one problem (hint: look at the far side of the moon)

http://www.weather.com/maps/news/forecastsummary/lunareclipsesetup_large.html?from=wxcenter_maps

By: News From Space! - The Original Space Weblog » August 2007 Lunar Eclipse

News From Space! - The Original Space Weblog » August 2007 Lunar Eclipse — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:36:47 +0000

[...] The best view will be from Australia and New Zealand, but North Americans should be able to catch it as well, especially in the West. This entry is filed under Astronomy. You can follow any [...]

By: Lunar Indecision | K-Squared Ramblings

Lunar Indecision | K-Squared Ramblings — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:13:36 +0000

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Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:22:46 +0000

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Lunar Eclipse Tonight — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:47:26 +0000

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By: zeb

zeb — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:19:33 +0000

Wooo! All of California gets to see it! Actually, Phil, you can see it, if you stay up to about 4 A.M. When the Moon sets for you it will have finished coming out of the umbra.

It any of you don’t see it, don’t worry. The next one is on February 21st, and it will be a nice early evening one for North Americans.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:42:48 +0000

Ha!
We’ll have a good view of the whole thing here in Seattle, and a promise of clear skies too. (Only because it’s monday and ALL weekends this summer have been lousy). But 3:00 am is just not a friendly time for us who have work the next day, so I’ll probably pass this one up.

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Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:02:40 +0000

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