Last night's lunar eclipse

David Stein

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Mar 14, 2025, 11:30:05 AM3/14/25

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I'm eagerly awaiting some real astrophotographs from last night's lunar eclipse, but in the meantime here is a picture I took from my driveway with my cellphone. It was well worth getting out of bed for!

David

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Al Francis

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Mar 14, 2025, 11:43:36 AM3/14/25

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Just a simple SeeStar image.

Al

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On Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM David Stein <david....@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm eagerly awaiting some real astrophotographs from last night's lunar eclipse, but in the meantime here is a picture I took from my driveway with my cellphone. It was well worth getting out of bed for!

David

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Wayne Baggett

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Mar 14, 2025, 1:15:23 PM3/14/25

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Here a shot I got from my driveway in Columbia. It is the average of 3 exposures, each 1/5sec, F5.6, ISO 12800, and 250mm focal length, taken just after 2:30am EDT; this is a 40% reduction of the full-size image. They were handheld images, braced against my house for stability. Not the greatest image, but it was fun to see the eclipse for a few minutes!

Wayne

On 3/14/2025 11:29 AM, David Stein wrote:

I'm eagerly awaiting some real astrophotographs from last night's lunar eclipse, but in the meantime here is a picture I took from my driveway with my cellphone. It was well worth getting out of bed for!

David

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Rich

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Mar 14, 2025, 1:26:05 PM3/14/25

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Hi All,

From Severn’s Bortle 7/8 skies! Resolution was reduced to meet email 8mb limit.

Times: 1022p, 2:22a, 2:27a, 2:37a

By my estimation totality occurred at 2:27a, but it’s really difficult say the exact moment.

Last picture is blurry due to long exposure time and cloud cover. Better something than nothing.

-Rich Russin

On Mar 14, 2025, at 11:30 AM, David Stein <david....@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm eagerly awaiting some real astrophotographs from last night's lunar eclipse, but in the meantime here is a picture I took from my driveway with my cellphone. It was well worth getting out of bed for!

David

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Joseph Novotka

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Mar 14, 2025, 1:29:23 PM3/14/25

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Nice images Rich

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Mar 14, 2025, 2:11:22 PM3/14/25

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Wow – I am amazed. I set up in my yard in Towson and the high clouds slowly advanced and thickened until no Moon was by the start of totality. Went inside to put my feet up and peeked out again a little after 3am, same situation so I called it a night. Glad that so many other places had clear enough conditions to take in totality!

Jim

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Hi All,

From Severn’s Bortle 7/8 skies! Resolution was reduced to meet email 8mb limit.

Times: 1022p, 2:22a, 2:27a, 2:37a

By my estimation totality occurred at 2:27a, but it’s really difficult say the exact moment.

Last picture is blurry due to long exposure time and cloud cover. Better something than nothing.

-Rich Russin

On Mar 14, 2025, at 11:30 AM, David Stein <david....@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm eagerly awaiting some real astrophotographs from last night's lunar eclipse, but in the meantime here is a picture I took from my driveway with my cellphone. It was well worth getting out of bed for!

David
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Mark Parsons

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Mar 14, 2025, 2:57:09 PM3/14/25

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Here is one I got from my front yard in Mount Airy. This is with an asi533mc and a 150mm Newtonian - a single 2 second exposure at gain 100 captured with sharp cap.

Used PixInsight to debayer, stretch and curves.

I might reprocess it later as I did this at 3:30 and was quite tired .

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On Mar 14, 2025, at 1:15 PM, 'Wayne Baggett' via Howard Astronomical League <howar...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Here a shot I got from my driveway in Columbia. It is the average of 3 exposures, each 1/5sec, F5.6, ISO 12800, and 250mm focal length, taken just after 2:30am EDT; this is a 40% reduction of the full-size image. They were handheld images, braced against my house for stability. Not the greatest image, but it was fun to see the eclipse for a few minutes!

To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/howardastro/ba809fb7-21f9-42ce-86c9-7ef1d619647e%40verizon.net.

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jeffrey silver

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Mar 14, 2025, 5:50:56 PM3/14/25

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Fantastic- by me in owings mills clouds cover the moon at 235am.

Thank you

Jeff S

On Mar 14, 2025, at 1:26 PM, Rich <jpms...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

From Severn’s Bortle 7/8 skies! Resolution was reduced to meet email 8mb limit.

Times: 1022p, 2:22a, 2:27a, 2:37a

By my estimation totality occurred at 2:27a, but it’s really difficult say the exact moment.

Last picture is blurry due to long exposure time and cloud cover. Better something than nothing.

-Rich Russin

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On Mar 14, 2025, at 11:30 AM, David Stein <david....@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm eagerly awaiting some real astrophotographs from last night's lunar eclipse, but in the meantime here is a picture I took from my driveway with my cellphone. It was well worth getting out of bed for!

David

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James Willinghan

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Mar 14, 2025, 6:41:16 PM3/14/25

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Decided not to take a chance and drove out and spent the night in West Virginia. Only processed one image off the camera last night and just got back home. Will be processing the rest hopefully over the weekend, but here ya go…

James

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On Mar 14, 2025, at 11:30 AM, David Stein <david....@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm eagerly awaiting some real astrophotographs from last night's lunar eclipse, but in the meantime here is a picture I took from my driveway with my cellphone. It was well worth getting out of bed for!

David