Lunar Eclipse now!

Fantastic from Wolverhampton. . . best Lunar I've seen almost half now

Anyone online watching the Eclipse too?
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 22:02:31 -0000, "suave harv"
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Fantastic from Wolverhampton. . . best Lunar I've seen almost half now

Anyone online watching the Eclipse too?

Here in Wordsley it is almost complete!

Clear Skies

noz
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It's funny how small the Moon looks when it is so dim. For a change it looks
like what it is - a small planetoid ½ a degree across.

The colours are delicate and absolutely beautiful here in this dark country
district.

Bluebeard

Looks like Mars now. . red planet with polar caps. No totality yet in
Wolverhampton 22.54

Did you see the meteor 22.26? to the right of the moon?

Top banana!

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"Bluebeard" wrote in message
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It's funny how small the Moon looks when it is so dim. For a change it
looks like what it is - a small planetoid ½ a degree across.

The colours are delicate and absolutely beautiful here in this dark
country district.

Bluebeard

"suave harv" wrote in message
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Looks like Mars now. . red planet with polar caps. No totality yet in
Wolverhampton 22.54

Did you see the meteor 22.26? to the right of the moon?

Top banana!

Yes! I did! Glad to note someone else saw it!

ally

nice and clear in cambridge tooo


ive taken 15 images of it so far



simon
"suave harv" wrote in message
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Fantastic from Wolverhampton. . . best Lunar I've seen almost half now

Anyone online watching the Eclipse too?
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Anybody know what the (integrated) magnitude of a total eclipse like
tonight's would have been? Even in 100mm binoculars it was on the dim side,
though admittedly the dew didn't help...


Bluebeard

On Mar 3, 6:10 pm, "Bluebeard" wrote:
Anybody know what the (integrated) magnitude of a total eclipse like
tonight's would have been? Even in 100mm binoculars it was on the dim side,
though admittedly the dew didn't help...

Bluebeard

Mar 4, 00:50Ut

I picked it up here in E Arkansas just at the Umbra
was about to touch th Aristarchus Plateau. I could not
see the "umbrated" side, but I had some haze to the East.

Checked it while ago as the Mare Imbrium was exposed
and I feel like the eclipse will prove to be darker than expected.

Ben
90.126 n 35.539

"Bluebeard" wrote in message
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Anybody know what the (integrated) magnitude of a total eclipse like
tonight's would have been? Even in 100mm binoculars it was on the dim
side, though admittedly the dew didn't help...


Bluebeard

Observed throughout at University of London Observatory (UCL), definitely
the best local conditions for a lunar eclipse since December 1992. The
entire event was followed by a group of UCL astronomy students, viewing
through the 8-inch Fry refractor with a 50-mm diameter eyepiece, so the
whole Moon could be seen. They also used binoculars and small portable
telescopes.

I made an eye estimate by putting on some strong reading glasses that made
stars and planets defocussed to about the same apparent size as the Moon!
At around 2330, I estimated the integrated magnitude as -2.7 by comparison
to Regulus (1.35) and Saturn (0.0).

Students made estimates of crater immersion and emersion times. This was
great practice as they learned lunar topography, Greek philosophy and
science history (names, anyways) and got some experience of visual observing
instead of computer reduction of CCD images.

The darkness around the NW part of the umbra was plainly seen, but the NE
region was much brighter, as was clearly seen in the 20 minutes before end
of totality.

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Quality Harv,
Seeing here in Tamworth is fantastic - my wife is moaning that I am in
and out leaving the conservatory cold. Poor footage on Sky TV though!
I came in early from the pub to take some shots (Photos!) and was
amazed how many people were standing in the streets looking up and
phoning their moms - cool!

Peace.
P.s. are you booking up for the northern lights?

Ian

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 22:02:31 -0000, "suave harv"
wrote:


Fantastic from Wolverhampton. . . best Lunar I've seen almost half now

Anyone online watching the Eclipse too?