Lunar eclipse

[alamocdc]

Yes, folks, we had a full lunar eclipse tonight. You should still be able to see the tail end of it if 1) the sky is clear in your area, and 2) you hurry. For those unable to view it, or who didn't know about it, I took the liberty of taking a few photos. Granted, my little Samsung digital isn't the best, but you should still be able to get the idea of what I viewed. And I braved 9 degree temps to do it. BURR!!!! It took about 78 minutes to get all these. Anyway, for your viewing pleasure.

And I left this one a little bigger b/c when small the surrounding white space washed the moon out completely. You may still have a hard time making it out, but trust me, the moon is in there.

This won't happen again until 2010.

 

[PenWorks]

Thanks Billy, I wanted to see it, but we had a storm blow in tonight. [V] I'll take a little rain over 9 degrees.

 

[GoodTurns]

no pics, but it looked great over Maryland...kept waking the kid up to look at it every 15 minutes...amazing to watch!

 

[toolcrazy]

Here is a photo I took of the full eclipse.

 

[alamocdc]

Yep, that's what I was hoping my digital would get. I could have used my Minolta 35mm but I didn't want to have to wait to get the pics developed. Nice shot, Steve, and thanks!

 

[Ligget]

WOW! Great pictures, thanks for sharing![]

 

[VisExp]

We saw it. It was great. Didn't even think of trying to take a picture though [:I]

 

[Monty]

Unfortunately it was raining here in Houston and I couldn't see it. Thanks for the picts.

 

[johncrane]

My photos look just like yours Bill.[]

 

[fiferb]

My wife asked me to take photos for her special ed class. She starts astronomy next week. I took the first at 9:00 and every 15 minutes with the last at midnight. Fortunately it was a very clear night for us last night.

 

[Scott]

Yes, it was great, wasn't it! I watched it for over two hours, going out about every five minutes. The dog and cats thought I was crazy! My family just ignored me as they know I'm nuts! [8D] Thanks for the great pictures!

Scott.

 

[turned_for_good]

I know what you mean Scott, I watched it off and on but nobody else really cared.

 

[arjudy]

I watched the eclipse last night but it was too cold to take pictures through my telescope. Here are a couple of pictures, one is of an eclipse on 10/27/2004 and the other is Venus moving across the face of the sun on 6/8/2004

 

[rdunn12]

I got my telescope out last night and got 3 good minutes of looking and then the clouds came in.Never even got another peek.

 

[ahoiberg]

thanks for the pics, it was cloudy here (not in iowa??) plus i had the flu and it was about -10 degrees out. so, i'm glad to live vicariously through your pics.