Lunar Eclipse

[John H K Murrell]

Is everyone prepared for the Lunar eclipse in the early hours of Monday morning ? The big question at present is will the sky stay clear – here in Carshalton the forecast is for cloud at the time of the Eclipse. Forecast for the south coast looks better.

 

Let us all see your images if you get some.

 

Regards

 

John

[John H K Murrell]

PS

 

Times of the eclipse are here http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/uk/london . Estimates of the eclipse magnitude are being requested – see The Astronomer electronic notice – I can’t reproduce it here for copyright reasons.

 

JohnM

[Mike Maunder]

John

you asked for any pictures of the eclipse - got one already…

Never forget that at moon rise/set at full moon earth shadow is an eclipse, so you get 2 lunar eclipses each full moon !

I got a whole sequence as moon rose through low clouds over Beaumont Hague (French Sellafield) in earth shadow, with small boat and Fort Raz & vegetation for foreground interest. Pentax 645D with 55mm fl prime lens, the resolution allows blow up to ~=500mm fl. Might be possible after conversion from 59.4Mb down to med resolution 1.4Mb for email purposes. No other processing.

Main problem a force 4-5 NE wind straight in your face.

Star party here all night…3rd eclipse at dawn, says he hopefully…

Mike

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