Totality Exposed

Dear Friends,

The Greek gods expressed their anger this weekend in the most
categorical way and adversely affected the first lunar total eclipse in
three years and the first of two such eclipses during 2007 with a
plethora of clouds (thin and thick depending on their mood during the
course of the eclipse).

For an image taken during totality and which includes 56 Leonis to the
bottom right of the moon, I kindly direct you to
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2007-03-03.htm .

Europe has been hammered this winter and particularly this weekend where
bad weather was common throughout the continent.

Best wishes from (cloudy) Greece!

Anthony.

PS. I have over 100 images to examine and will send a follow-up email if
I have something of greater interest.

On Mar 3, 7:50 pm, Anthony Ayiomamitis
wrote:
Dear Friends,

The Greek gods expressed their anger this weekend in the most
categorical way and adversely affected the first lunar total eclipse in
three years and the first of two such eclipses during 2007 with a
plethora of clouds (thin and thick depending on their mood during the
course of the eclipse).

For an image taken during totality and which includes 56 Leonis to the
bottom right of the moon, I kindly direct you tohttp://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2007-03-03.htm.

Europe has been hammered this winter and particularly this weekend where
bad weather was common throughout the continent.

Best wishes from (cloudy) Greece!

Anthony.

PS. I have over 100 images to examine and will send a follow-up email if
I have something of greater interest.

Anthony,

Pray to Echo while the wind is blowing. (??)

Pythagoras (of
Croton)

Your image is still splendid.

Ben

In article ,
Anthony Ayiomamitis wrote:

The Greek gods expressed their anger this weekend in the most
categorical way and adversely affected the first lunar total eclipse in
three years and the first of two such eclipses during 2007 with a
plethora of clouds (thin and thick depending on their mood during the
course of the eclipse).

For an image taken during totality and which includes 56 Leonis to the
bottom right of the moon, I kindly direct you to
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2007-03-03.htm .

Europe has been hammered this winter and particularly this weekend where
bad weather was common throughout the continent.

Best wishes from (cloudy) Greece!

Anthony.

PS. I have over 100 images to examine and will send a follow-up email if
I have something of greater interest.

As usual, a wonderful image, Anthony!

The Nordic gods were benign during this eclipse and gave us clear
weather over most of Sweden. As seen from Stockholm, the initial
partial phase and almost all of the totality could be seen against a
clear sky, but towards the very end of totality and during the final
partial phase, the Moon went in and out of altocumulus clouds.

This was a fairly bright eclipse. I estimated it as L=2.5 on the
Danjon scale, and the Moon's magnitude at mid-totality as -2, using
Regulus and Saturn as a comparison.

Am I the only one doing brightness estimates of the totally eclipsed
moon btw?

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Paul Schlyter wrote:

In article ,
Anthony Ayiomamitis wrote:

The Greek gods expressed their anger this weekend in the most
categorical way and adversely affected the first lunar total eclipse in
three years and the first of two such eclipses during 2007 with a
plethora of clouds (thin and thick depending on their mood during the
course of the eclipse).

For an image taken during totality and which includes 56 Leonis to the
bottom right of the moon, I kindly direct you to
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2007-03-03.htm .

Europe has been hammered this winter and particularly this weekend where
bad weather was common throughout the continent.

Best wishes from (cloudy) Greece!

Anthony.

PS. I have over 100 images to examine and will send a follow-up email if
I have something of greater interest.

As usual, a wonderful image, Anthony!

The Nordic gods were benign during this eclipse and gave us clear
weather over most of Sweden. As seen from Stockholm, the initial
partial phase and almost all of the totality could be seen against a
clear sky, but towards the very end of totality and during the final
partial phase, the Moon went in and out of altocumulus clouds.

I concur with that. To me (30 km outside Stockholm) it was visible even
through the clouds in 20*80 binos, but not all the time by naked eye.
Seeing was great - I had a very nice view of Saturn last night.

BTW Paul, is the occultation of 56 Leo worth reporting ?
Visual, with an accuracy of 1-2 seconds. It was gone for 21m30s.

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to those whom I don't mind billing by the hour

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_Ekl=F6f?= wrote:

BTW Paul, is the occultation of 56 Leo worth reporting ?
Visual, with an accuracy of 1-2 seconds. It was gone for 21m30s.

No, that's not worth reporting. If you did report it to e.g. ILOC, they'd
probably discard it because of lack of accuracy.

The standard aim already a few decades ago was to report the observed
time of occultation to 0.1 seconds, and aim at a final accuracy
(including e.g. reaction time) of 0.3 seconds or better. With today's
camcorders one can (by recording the occultation on video and a radio
time signal simultaneously on the audio track) fairly easily get an
accuracy of a few hundredths of a second in the observed time of the
occultation.


I recommend Macs to my friends, and Windows machines
to those whom I don't mind billing by the hour

Actually, today you don't have to choose - you can get both in
one and the same machine, since you now can run Windows on
recent Mac's with an Intel CPU! :-)

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Paul Schlyter, Grev Turegatan 40, SE-114 38 Stockholm, SWEDEN
e-mail: pausch at stockholm dot bostream dot se
WWW: http://stjarnhimlen.se/

Paul Schlyter wrote:


I recommend Macs to my friends, and Windows machines
to those whom I don't mind billing by the hour

Actually, today you don't have to choose - you can get both in
one and the same machine, since you now can run Windows on
recent Mac's with an Intel CPU! :-)

As you may guess, I'm well aware of that :-)

To get both in one machine you will have to choose a Mac,
so my recommendation still holds.

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to those whom I don't mind billing by the hour

"Anthony Ayiomamitis" wrote in message
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Dear Friends,

The Greek gods expressed their anger this weekend in the most categorical
way and adversely affected the first lunar total eclipse in three years
and the first of two such eclipses during 2007 with a plethora of clouds
(thin and thick depending on their mood during the course of the eclipse).

For an image taken during totality and which includes 56 Leonis to the
bottom right of the moon, I kindly direct you to
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2007-03-03.htm .

Europe has been hammered this winter and particularly this weekend where
bad weather was common throughout the continent.

Best wishes from (cloudy) Greece!

Anthony.

PS. I have over 100 images to examine and will send a follow-up email if I
have something of greater interest.

Anthony,
Amazingly, something went wrong with the ECCE.(English Cloud Cover Engine).
The sky over London was brilliantly clear! Only briefly disturbed by the
well-spread remains
of a con-trail drifting past the near-total eclipse, having almost no effect
the event. I had great fun trying to keep condensation at bay!

Pat


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"Anthony Ayiomamitis" wrote in message
...

Dear Friends,

The Greek gods expressed their anger this weekend in the most categorical
way and adversely affected the first lunar total eclipse in three years
and the first of two such eclipses during 2007 with a plethora of clouds
(thin and thick depending on their mood during the course of the eclipse).

For an image taken during totality and which includes 56 Leonis to the
bottom right of the moon, I kindly direct you to
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2007-03-03.htm .

Europe has been hammered this winter and particularly this weekend where
bad weather was common throughout the continent.

Best wishes from (cloudy) Greece!

Anthony.

PS. I have over 100 images to examine and will send a follow-up email if I
have something of greater interest.


Anthony,

Hi Pat,

Amazingly, something went wrong with the ECCE.(English Cloud Cover Engine).

I don't suppose your redirected the engine towards the southeast
Mediterranean? :-)

The sky over London was brilliantly clear! Only briefly disturbed by the
well-spread remains

A friend who is studying at Cambridge mentioned that the local skies
were exceptional.

of a con-trail drifting past the near-total eclipse, having almost no effect
the event. I had great fun trying to keep condensation at bay!

I had the Kendrick dew system setup but it was of no use ... it is the
clouds that did me in. Does Baader have a cloud filter? LOL!

Anthony.


Pat


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Anthony,
Amazingly, something went wrong with the ECCE.(English Cloud Cover Engine).
The sky over London was brilliantly clear! Only briefly disturbed by the
well-spread remains
of a con-trail drifting past the near-total eclipse, having almost no
effect
the event. I had great fun trying to keep condensation at bay!

Yes, London was beautifully clear last night, though today is a Grade A
grey day.

My partner took this shot from the back garden.

http://www.davidarditti.co.uk/luneclipse07.html

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Edgware.

Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:

Anthony,
Amazingly, something went wrong with the ECCE.(English Cloud Cover Engine).
The sky over London was brilliantly clear! Only briefly disturbed by the
well-spread remains
of a con-trail drifting past the near-total eclipse, having almost no
effect
the event. I had great fun trying to keep condensation at bay!

Yes, London was beautifully clear last night, though today is a Grade A
grey day.

My partner took this shot from the back garden.

http://www.davidarditti.co.uk/luneclipse07.html

My compliments - that's a lovely shot.

Jim
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