Brisbane Blood Moon

[cybereye]

Hi all!

The cloud cleared long enough here in Brisbane for me to get images up to, but not including, totality! Here's the one before the clouds returned...

Cheers,
Mario

[strongmanmike]

Excellent Mario :thumbsup:...I didn't bother with this Luna eclipse but I got the last one :)

Mike

[cybereye]

Thanks Mike - I didn't do the last one due to a big dose of apathy so I was determined to get this one. As the evening started there was cloud everywhere and it wasn't until the Moon was in half-eclipse that they cleared. The image I posted was the last one before the clouds rolled in again! Just FYI, the image was taken using my Pentax K30 attached to my Orion ST80, f/5, ISO 400, 1s exposure.

[Suzy]

Nice one Mario :thumbsup:.
Weren't we so lucky to get what we did in Brisbane. I had a nice big sucker hole - just around the Moon only, everything else was a blanket of cloud - was quite amazing and surreal. So I got to see a fair chunk of it including totality. But here's the funny thing... I didn't realise at the time (I found out this morning thru someone) that in Brisbane although we got totality there was a tiny sliver not being covered. And there I was scratching my head saying "what's taking so long" lol :lol:. Looked really pretty with that sliver tho. And well.. if the information I was given was wrong, then I guess I missed that final moment.

[cybereye]

Thanks Suzy! From what I can gather we were lucky on the south side of Brisbane as a friend at work who lives at Albany Creek saw nothing! I kept running to the front of the house which faces south where I could see that sucker hole coming and I think it gave us about 40 minutes of uninterrupted viewing. By my calculations there was still about 5 minutes to go until totality when the clouds returned for the night hence the sliver of light on my image.

As Maxwell Smart would say - "missed it by that much!"

Cheers,
Mario