Partial lunar eclipse heads up

[Lee]

Partial lunar eclipse this full moon.... whoops just noticed its on the planner to the left.....
click this link if you can't reach the planner.... :P
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/calendar/calendar.php?mode=view&id=31

[circumpolar]

Yep, big night (early morning) for the east coast. Occultation of Uranus first up then the partial lunar eclipse. Looks like a slow day at work on friday:rolleyes: .

It's a shame we'll miss the end of the eclipse, but I guess there's really not much else to see after the umbral egress is over.
WA enjoy:) .

[iceman]

Hey that's cool, thanks for the reminder. I'll try and capture at least one of these.

[circumpolar]

Uranus Uranus Uranus Uranus Uranus!!!
Not that I'm trying to influence you at all Mike :whistle:
Animation Animation Animation Animation!!!


PS. Try saying the first line 5 times really fast :rofl:

[rogerg]

Hmm... 12 midnight thorugh to 5am ... that's no good for a week day! argh. :(

Roger.

[h0ughy]

but it is on a friday!

look here for details http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/image1/LE2006Sep07-Fig4.GIF

[iceman]

At moonset? Ah geez that writes me off then - I can't see much in the west.

Might have to go on a field trip.

[rogerg]

Yeah but I still have to work on a Friday :doh:

[h0ughy]

So do I but here you get to have hangover symptoms before the weekend and drag yourself through the day spruking about what a wonderful night you had;)

[Lee]

Reminder for tonight - weather looking ordinary though.....

[h0ughy]

Well sung its praises on KOFM this morning and plugged IIS at 5.45am

[iceman]

Nice work h0ughy!

[[1ponders]]

Would have loved to have seen them, clouded out until about 6:00 am wouldn't you know :doh:

[h0ughy]

well just for Paul, we will replay the events tonight and in the morning:P :D

[Astroman]

CLOUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @ 2:45am Complete cloud cover. Looks like no eclipse for me :(

[Jupiter]

Rain here too, was going nicely now its raining.

[jjjnettie]

We were fortunate enough to have clear skies. But windy, very windy.
Jack got up to watch the event as well.
I took some pics with the video camera, but the ep kept on getting full of dust and stuff leaving some of the images rather spotty.
They're not much but here they are.:)

[gaa_ian]

We too were blessed with clear skies here, nice shots Nettie
This was the best I could do :shrug:
It was worth it to get up for a look though :thumbsup:

[iceman]

Nice results guys. On the way to work, the clouds parted for a brief moment (literally, 1 second) and I saw the bite out of the moon. That was my eclipse experience.

[jjjnettie]

Why don't you pop your photo over to the Solar System photos for all to see.
It was a memorable event hey.

[Astroman]

Just went out to look if it was still partially visible, nope clear skies now and the eclipse is over , typical.

[Dennis]

Hi Guys

Well done to all who braved the wee hours of the morning and especially the gale force winds in Brisbane. The Moon began to set behind our roof top around 3:00am, so I rushed upstairs into the study and poked the WO 80mm out the window on a tripod with Pentax *ist DS attached. It was a bit clumsy, but I managed to grab an image every minute for 60 minutes, so will try to make an animated gif later today.

Yawn.

Dennis

[Lee]

I got up to let the pups out at about 3.30 - clouded over.... so I was pleasantly surprised when my eclipse alarm went off at 4.45 and it was clear in the west..... Beautiful..... better than last years IIRC....

[glenc]

This was taken just before the moon set.
End of umbra was 5:39
Local moonset 6:04
End of penumbra 6:59

[iceman]

Wow very nice shot Glen.. hope you don't mind, I ran it through Noiseware and resized it. Very pretty shot, I wish I had a west horizon like that!

[glenc]

Thanks Mike.
My wife Julie took the shot.

[h0ughy]

full cloud cover, at least you got to see it Mike!

[rogerg]

Nice shots from everyone posting pics. We had strong winds, almost horizontal rain, cloud (usually comes with rain), and no power. Definitely not good weather for an eclipse!

Roger.