OT: Lunar eclipse this weekend

[Spacehead]

There's a full lunar eclipse on Saturday night. Today's APOD shows a nice animated gif of it with relevent info on start times etc.

Enjoy, if the weather cooperates for ya!

 

[zodder]

Sweet! First the Northern Lights then a lunar eclipse. I dig space.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

nice, except it'll be raining all weekend here in north texas.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: zodder
Sweet! First the Northern Lights then a lunar eclipse. I dig space.

At least you were outside for them and not inside working!
I do intend to be home for the eclipse though. And I'm armed with a hell of a telescope - on loan to me from a relative. A $1600 Celestar 8.

 

[OhioDude]

Thanks, Spacehead.



PS - I always thought that "umbra" sounded so dirty!!!!

 

[DannyBoy]

Should be fun to see, i always miss the lunar ones :|

shweet

 

[Spacehead]

Did anyone get to see it?
The weather ended up cooperating for most of totality, but just about 8:30EST some heavier clouds starting rolling in. Pretty cool though. That's the 1st time i've seen an eclipse thru a scope.

Man is it cold outside! Brrrrr!!!

 

[Wiz]

it's a good'un

 

[amdskip]

I attempted to take pics of it, gonna go see how they turned out.

 

[RaySun2Be]

My daughter and I saw it, she tried taking some pics with her digital camera, I don't think they turned out very well.

But it was cool!

 

[zodder]

The skies over western NY actually cooperated and I was able to see it all. I must say, it was pretty cool.

 

[GeoffS]

Yep.. it was a beautiful night in Vermont (kinda cold though) and the eclipse could be seen perfectly!

 

[OhioDude]

Obscured by heavy clouds.

 

[Ken g6]

I got a few digital pics. I need to download them and see how they worked.

 

[Ken g6]

PICS!!!
moonneareclipse.JPG
mooneclipse.JPG

 

[bsr]

lol.. you alittle late there?

 

[Spacehead]

Better late than never.

Nice pics Ken

 

[Evadman]

Nice

 

[RaySun2Be]

Nice pics!