Author Topic: Eclipse of the moon Tuesday 28 August 2007 (Read 5427 times)

Mike · « **on:** 28 August 2007, 04:09:04 PM »

Just a reminder that there's an eclipse of the moon Tuesday 28th. NT time is 7:22pm to 8:30pm. So adjust your time for eastern states. The moon will be eclipsed by Earth for an hour and will be a fabulous colour orange to red. Get the big lens' out for this one as it has not happened for a while! Apparently the NSW and QLD seaboards will have the best view - wish you luck and hope to see some photos on the forum.

Mike

Steven · « **Reply #1 on:** 28 August 2007, 04:18:42 PM »

Cool, have a camera and best view of my house is to the east, might head to the beach for a better view if required.

Mike · « **Reply #2 on:** 28 August 2007, 04:58:25 PM »

Cool. Just check with local papers or astronomy places for times - i guess when it's dark and you see the moon go for it, but will pay to check for times in relevant states. An hour eclipse is pretty long and that will give everyone time to get to a good location or set the camera/telescope up.

Mike

Michael Bath · « **Reply #3 on:** 29 August 2007, 12:52:32 PM »

still some high cloud persisting around here though signs it may clear up during the eclipse

Penumbral Eclipse stage begins : 5:52pm *A.E.S.T (07:52 *U.T.C)
Partial Eclipse stage begins : 6:50pm *A.E.S.T (08:50 *U.T.C)
Total Eclipse stage begins : 7:52pm *A.E.S.T (09:52 *U.T.C)
Greatest (Mid) Eclipse (enters the Umbral stage) : 8:37pm *A.E.S.T (10:37 *U.T.C)
Total Eclipse stage ends : 9:22pm *A.E.S.T (11:22 *U.T.C)
Partial Eclipse stage ends : 10:23pm *A.E.S.T (12:23 *U.T.C)
Penumbral Eclipse stage ends : 11:22pm *A.E.S.T (13:22 *U.T.C)

Michael Bath · « **Reply #4 on:** 29 August 2007, 02:11:03 PM »

F5.6 1 second @ 7.52pm

Steven · « **Reply #5 on:** 29 August 2007, 02:15:36 PM »

Thankyou Michael, with my limited experience and not a good camera I can't take photos properly although it looks good just with the naked eye, its beautiful. If anyone has missed out there is still time as it goes into brightening and dimming phases, the red is dim but from my viewpoint not that reddish. Got a good view here on my east facing balcony. At precisely 7:52pm is the starting time.

Mike · « **Reply #6 on:** 29 August 2007, 02:46:00 PM »

Strewth here's my shocking photos of the eclipse - looks more like an orange floating in tar. working in the dark and fiddling with a camera with no infinity marker is just deserts. Here they are anyway people.

Mike

enak_12 · « **Reply #7 on:** 29 August 2007, 03:55:06 PM »

My shots of the lunar eclipse from tonight taken in the Coffs Harbour area.

Mike · « **Reply #8 on:** 29 August 2007, 04:34:23 PM »

Here's some info on the eclipse from wikipedia 2004 eclipse and spaceweather.com

Mike

Michael Bath · « **Reply #9 on:** 30 August 2007, 01:28:52 AM »

Here's a sequence - all are 100% crops of the original digital images

Michael Bath · « **Reply #10 on:** 30 August 2007, 02:10:27 AM »

These three image of the eclipse were taken by Jimmy:

Mike · « **Reply #11 on:** 30 August 2007, 03:13:04 AM »

Some fabulous photos by all! We'll have to wait another four years for the next one. I think the whole country was out to view this event and it kept our minds of storms for a short while!

Mike

Jeff Brislane · « **Reply #12 on:** 30 August 2007, 09:42:31 AM »

Hi guys,

Nice images MB. Does anyone else notice some problems with posting on this forum atm? All of the smiley faces are coming up funny to me anyway. I took a slightly different angle of the event.

Jeff Brislane · « **Reply #13 on:** 30 August 2007, 10:10:24 AM »

Here is a typical image of the moon which has been better shown above by enak imho.

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