Lunar eclipse tomorrow morning

[John Connor]

The second — and final — total lunar eclipse of 2014 will occur early Wednesday morning, just before sunrise in the Eastern Time Zone and in the middle of the night on the West Coast.
The moon will appear a coppery red, so it's been called a "blood" moon. It'll look red because of all the sunsets and sunrises from the Earth that will reflect onto the lunar surface. (During the eclipse, although it's completely in the shadow of Earth, a bit of reddish sunlight still reaches the moon.)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/10/06/lunar-eclipse-blood-moon-wednesday/16810903/

 

[balloonshark]

Rain and clouds in the forecast here :-(

 

[zanejohnson]

this is the 3rd this year correct?

the first one i believe, was the beautiful one, i watched it eclipse from about 3-330am, turned deep beautiful red, first time i've ever seen it in my life, and one of the coolest astronomical events i've ever witnessed, on par with the palladies? (sp) meteor shower years ago.

 

[MongGrel]

Yeah the wife told me about that, might get a good view of it down here.

Might have to take my camera to work, it has a good view of the sky and would have to walk out and see it from there.

 

[Imp]

Thought about waking up for this one, but it's raining and will probably be cloudy overnight... That's ignoring the row of houses across the street blocking my view.

 

[MongGrel]

Probably will be clear there at work, and have a pretty nice panoramic view there.

My camera still is old but gonna do it, it's not horrible.

Putting it out with my going out the door stuff so I don't forget.

 

[MrDudeMan]

this is the 3rd this year correct?

the first one i believe, was the beautiful one, i watched it eclipse from about 3-330am, turned deep beautiful red, first time i've ever seen it in my life, and one of the coolest astronomical events i've ever witnessed, on par with the palladies? (sp) meteor shower years ago.

I have no idea if it's right, but

The second — and final — total lunar eclipse of 2014 ...

 

[zanejohnson]

i think this is a pic i took of the first one, i think this was pre eclipse though, it might not even be the right night, i took pics, just not sure if these are the right ones..

it's one of those things a camera just cant do justice too though really.

may 10?

 

[zanejohnson]

I have no idea if it's right, but

whoops lol that went right past me

looks like there is 4 between 2014/15, which is rare.

 

[John Connor]

Well, as luck would have it there is a light over cast and all I see in the sky is a glowing blob. **Flips the sky off**

 

[Uppsala9496]

Took a few decent photos with my wife's NEX-5N. Sadly only have a 18-55mm lens so I couldn't get great close ups. Didn't have time to upload them before I left for work.

 

[brainhulk]

 

[CraKaJaX]

Was too cloudy here on the way into work...

 

[dmcowen674]

Outside my apartment window this morning

 

[jumpncrash]

dammit, it was pouring rain here I set my alarm and everything, but I couldn't see shit

 

[drquest]

My daughter and I got up early this morning to check it out. Crisp morning and clear out and it didn't disappoint!

 

[SKORPI0]

Saw it while it was being covered by the earths shadow. Became cloudy when it reached total eclipse. :\

 

[Gooberlx2]

Meant to get up at 4:30am to take a look. Overslept to almost 5:00, and snapped a few pics before clouds started rolling in. One of these days I wanna get a decent telescope and mount my camera onto that.

 

[Imp]

Apparently, the clouds cleared a bit overnight, but still not clear. Next one is in March 2015 or something.

 

[Pneumothorax]

DSC_5509 by magbanutes, on Flickr

Got up at 4AM and took this with D800 + 70-200 lens.

 

[Triumph]

DSC_5509 by magbanutes, on Flickr

Got up at 4AM and took this with D800 + 70-200 lens.

i don't get it, i can see the whole moon. where's the eclipse?

 

[NoTine42]

i don't get it, i can see the whole moon. where's the eclipse?

That is the "eclipsed" moon.

While there is no direct sunlight bouncing off the moon, all of the earth's sunrises and sunsets (from the edge of the earths shadow) are still being reflected off the moon, so the moon looks red.

http://www.space.com/25493-why-the-moon-is-red-during-a-total-lunar-eclipse-video.html

 

[ctbaars]

So what time tomorrow is the eclipse?

 

[Larnz]

We had a perfect full clear view of it here in Christchurch, NZ last night. It was quite massive and very pretty here, no need for telescopes or binoculars though I imagine it would have been something else if I had some.

Some more pics here on stuff from NZ's POV: http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/10596998/Blood-Moon-shines-down-over-New-Zealand

 

[IronWing]

I got up to look but the eclipse was eclipsed by a mountain ridge so no eclipse for me. It did get really, really dark in the canyon.