OR Lunar Eclipse from Sunnyvale, CA

[Bill ONeil]

Hi All,

Well, the weather in Sunnyvale couldn't have been better. No clouds at all.

I did get up at 4 am to see the last of full Moon at the Top, before the Moon slipped into the Earth's shadow.

I was surprised how High it was in the Sky,

I woke my wife, Susan, up a little after 5 am. At that point the Sun was so dark you could see smaller stars near it (which you would never see at Full Brightness).  There was a small star to the right of the Moon, but a little further there was a Burst of stars, a small globular cluster called the Beehive cluster, M44, Very pretty!

All morning, you could clearly see Jupiter, rising high in the south-west.  If you had a small telescope you would have easily been able to see Jupiter's 4 moons.

Finally at 5:30 am, the Moon was totally Red, in maximum Eclipse.  Very dark, it would be hard to find if you didn't know where to look.

Hope the SJAA Crew that went to the USS Hornet Museum also had a Good Night & Morning??

Bill O'

VP at SJAA

[Peter Natscher]

The lunar eclipse from my house in Monterey was also very nice to see!  Fortunate to have no overcast.

Peter

[Mark Wagner]

Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across my head.

Went outside, saw the moon was dark and orange, though I was seeing the State Of The Union again.

Went back to bed.

[Philip Manela]

Clear views also from Skyline Drive (Hwy 35) above Saratoga.

Small groups had pulled over at all the usual spots where there are wide shoulders and a view to west.

Jupiter looked pretty through a small scope, 2 moons on either side and distinct equatorial bands.

Also saw about a half dozen bright meteors over the course of early morning.

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[Steve Gottlieb]

Beautiful from my Albany backyard, particularly set in Cancer and sharing the same binocular field with the Beehive cluster (actually a large, open cluster)

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[Kristi Whitfield]

It was clear at Lake Merritt in Oakland. I set up next to the lake and did a little public outreach for the passersby. Binocular viewing was a huge hit.

Mark said: Went outside, saw the moon was dark and orange, though I was seeing the State Of The Union again.

   Very funny

Kristi

On Jan 31, 2018, at 6:10 AM, Bill ONeil <bill.on...@gmail.com> wrote:

[RBA]

Hi TACos,

Here's so far my favorite landscape pic of the eclipse and a very quick "OR". Along with the eclipsed moon, its beautiful orange light glittering over the ocean (easily seen naked eye, too) and some bioluminescent creatures also glowing in the sea.

I arrived at Pfeiffer Beach early, around 3am. Not a soul around. I walked (had to go barefoot to cross a stream) to a far left location and got some shots from there before and during the first minutes of totality. Then some folks started to show up. I moved to a second location. These new guys were going crazy with their flashlights doing "lightpainting" over the rock formations there.. I admit it annoyed me a bit. As I saw the eclipsed moon glittering over the sea in the distance, away from the light-painted rocks, I moved away from the small crowd, following the orange reflection, and there came this shot... Barely any wind, warm temps (especially for this time of the year!)... gorgeous! Around 6am, after pulling this all-nighter, I started driving back home as totality was about to be over. The Pacific Coast Highway is a treat at anytime as we all know, and driving it up north out of Big Sur chasing the eclipsed moon as it slowly came back was quite unreal.

Small preview:


A bigger version:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4628/25142455807_098c61b85d_o.jpg

The image is a 2 pane mosaic. The bottom pane is also a stack of 6 images, mostly to accumulate more blue glow from the bioluminescences (it tends to appear at random spots). 

Cheers!

Rogelio