Total Lunar Eclipse - 15th June

[Izack]

Wow! That photo is incredible! :speakcool:

 

[tblaxland]

I went to the trouble of getting up at 05:00. There were a few clear patches in the sky, but none where the Moon was

I should gotten up earlier I guess: Blood red moon shines over Sydney. That cloud bank below the Moon had rolled up from the southwest by the time I got up:

BTW, the video caption:

If you woke up early enough you may have caught a glimpse of a blood-red lunar eclipse caused by ash from the Chilean volcano.

:facepalm:

But the ABC:

Red moon unaffected by Chile ash

The ash from a volcano in Chile would have had little impact on this morning's lunar eclipse, the New South Wales Anglo-Australian Observatory says.

At least our national broadcaster has some decent science reporters :thumbup:

 

[Stevodoran]

Shame no luck here

 

[ky]

It sucks living in America lol

 

[Chub777]

I didn't get to see it. At least there's one [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2011_lunar_eclipse"]later this year[/ame].

 

[SiberianTiger]

Me and my kid saw the onset of the eclipse perfectly, comfortably sitting on the fence and watching the eclipsing moon rise. We even took few pictures with a stand-fixed camera, but that was a pocket cam, so quality of the pics isn't too great. I will post some this evening anyway.

The yet unshadowed part of the moon was bright orange, but I think that was mostly due to low elevation of the moon over horizon: it's always of similar color when it's that low. When the full eclipse began, the entire Moon's face got brighter than it looked during the partial phase. However, I didn't notice any reddish colour in it, it rather looked ghostly gray and faint.

It's cool that my daughter managed to watch both Solar and Lunar full eclipses in her 7! :thumbup:

 

[agentgonzo]

Bah. Rain in the Southern UK. Missed it all. Looked a great one from the pics (as you'd expect for such a 'central' eclipse. Now us Englanders need to wait another 7 years until the next one. :-(

 

[RisingFury]

I don't know who I have to thank for this eclipse! I was busy taking pics at my uni's 70 cm telescope and the moon being covered up made conditions better.

I'll post pics of the globular clusters once processed...

 

[kevin580]

It was like I couldn't see it, but:
I already was in bed and sleeping...My father woke me up and said, the moon is there!
I saw it only for 10 seconds or so, then came clouds...I was about to take a photo...
Anyway, I saw it a little bit(in the partial phase).

 

[C3PO]

I didn't get to see it. At least there's one later this year.

According to Planetary, Lunar, and Stellar Visibility we'll just catch the end of that one.

 

[kevin580]

A nice video of the full eclipse:

 

[iamwearingpants]

I saw it!

There was a thin layer of clouds yesterday, and the golden moon was shining through them.
Absolutely beautiful!

 

[Suzy]

Got a nice view of the Moon being shadowed over on my early morning walk - it was more of a smoky ochre color than red, though.

 

[C3PO]

it was more of a smoky ochre color than red, though.

Sorry. We'll try to correct that for next time. :lol:

 

[N_Molson]

Seriously, what's the cause of that ? Being a little off-plane ? It is bright red only when you are under the Moon groundtrack ? :idk:

 

[tblaxland]

Seriously, what's the cause of that ? Being a little off-plane ? It is bright red only when you are under the Moon groundtrack ? :idk:

The colour only depends on the Moon's path, not your location on Earth. You may see some variation due local atmospheric effects, particularly if the Moon is low on the horizon.

An another note, this magnitude graph was published on LPOD today:

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How Dark Was It?
​

The June 15th, 2011 total lunar eclipse was followed photometrically from a mountain site in Namibia (16°21’47” E, 23°14’06” S, altitude 1834 m). All plotted magnitudes are standardized to an air mass of 1.0 of a Rayleigh atmosphere, which cannot correct for aerosol at low lunar altitudes during the first hour. This eclipse was “central”, because the Moon travelled through the center of the umbra. This led to its comparative darknes, with the light curve bottoming out at a magnitude of 0.35 mvis, implying a linear brightness reduction in excess of 120 000. The colored vertical lines designate the six eclipse contact times. The light curve’s asymmetry compared to the geometrical phases is probably due to a combination of lunar topography and potential anomalies in the Earth’s shadow, which will be further analyzed and published.[/table]​

 

[astrosammy]

Only had a few minutes, but it was great.

 

[Robitaille_Fan]

Sorry for delay in answer, I didn't see this topic before. Here are some pics made by me over Trieste (Italy):

Other pics can find here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/61081008@N08/sets/72157626855633921/with/5841589476/