Lunar Eclipse now!

I notice a couple of nice bright stars appearing in my photos, one
on each side of the moon - can anyone tell me what they are? They were
hardly visible with the naked eye, but on a long exposure the camera picked
them up.

Gosh: it was cold out there!

ally

Ally,

At 0h (near mideclipse) the coords of the Moon were
10h 59min N 06 deg 47 min which put it very near
63 (Chi) and 59 (c) Leonis. I may be wrong but that
looks pretty good. They are both about 5 th magnitude
so that was a very good sighting.

Gosh: it was cold out there!

Ben
90.126 n 35.539

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 01:23:08 -0000, "a l l y"
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"suave harv" wrote in message
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Fantastic from Wolverhampton. . . best Lunar I've seen almost half now

I've been out in our nice dark vegetable garden taking photos of the eclipse
in a lovely clear sky here in NW Cumbria. No fancy telescopes or anything,
but the camera has 10x zoom so I'm getting the best photos I've ever managed
of a lunar eclipse. I'll upload some tomorrow, to add to the general
plethora of eclipse photos that will emerge, but can someone answer me this
please? I notice a couple of nice bright stars appearing in my photos, one
on each side of the moon - can anyone tell me what they are? They were
hardly visible with the naked eye, but on a long exposure the camera picked
them up.

Gosh: it was cold out there!

ally



At 2330, the moon was roughly midway between 56Y Leonis (mag. 5.9) to
the west and 59 Leonis (mag. 5.0) to the east, both stars being
slighly less than a moon diameter away.

Dave W.

On Mar 3, 7:58 pm, Dave W wrote:
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 01:23:08 -0000, "a l l y"
At 2330, the moon was roughly midway between 56Y Leonis (mag. 5.9) to
the west and 59 Leonis (mag. 5.0) to the east, both stars being
slighly less than a moon diameter away.

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Thanks Dave,
I was just about to post a correction gleaned from
a couple of fresh images posted.

Ben
90.126 n 35.539

suave harv wrote:

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

Anyone online watching the Eclipse too?

No, I was out there live, I only watched up to the full Eclipse though,
I just couldn't stay up to watch it subside.

Pics he

http://www.thehewitts.eclipse.co.uk/Eclipse2007/

--
Andy Hewitt
http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/

The MVN (that was 100% and leaking water at 19:45) eventually cleared to
reveal a pristine sky. I didn't use any optical instruments and I didn't
bother trying to photograph it. Instead, I spent most of it on the phone
to my elder son (who has never before shown an interest in astronomy)
and my 7-yr old granddaughter (who is developing an interest in
astronomy). We chatted about what was going on and showed them how, by
using hand-spans, etc, we could guide each other around the sky. I gave
them a "tour" and, although they are 250 miles away, we had a very
fruitful evening together. I stayed up later, but the fog rolled in on
the North Downs by mid-night, and I eventually called it a night and
retired to my pit.


Best,
Stephen

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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.

--
Mike Dworetsky

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"Ben" wrote in message
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On Mar 3, 7:58 pm, Dave W wrote:
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 01:23:08 -0000, "a l l y"
At 2330, the moon was roughly midway between 56Y Leonis (mag. 5.9) to
the west and 59 Leonis (mag. 5.0) to the east, both stars being
slighly less than a moon diameter away.

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Thanks Dave,
I was just about to post a correction gleaned from
a couple of fresh images posted.

Thanks guys. Now I can add that info to my (rather small) pics on Flickr and
make my friends think I'm ever so knowledgeable....

ally

"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