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Originally Posted by Liz
Nice photos fellas. 
Got up and watched from 1130 pm (real time) .... the Moon was very bright. Thought I read somewhere that the darkening was happening from the top, wish I had read your post earlier Rob re darkening from the South.
Still .... went to bed after 30 min, didnt really notice anything, and didnt even attempt an image.  |
Thanks Liz. The northern part of the Moon got darkest (bottom part as we looked at it). After 30 mins you really wouldn't see anything Liz, only becomes visible when it's quite advanced.
Attached is a composite, using 5 x 1/2000 sec shots of the Moon and 3 x 1/4 sec shots of Jupiter & moons (l-r Callisto, Ganymede & Europa - Io was too close to Jupiter's limb to show). Taken at 1:40am (14:40 UT), a few minutes after maximum penumbral eclipse. You'll need to enlarge it with the toggle to see the moons, it's pretty wide.
The image was reduced to slightly less than half actual pixel size. Let me know if you can see any joins (not visible on my monitor).
And Andrew & I got published!
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2...oons-glow?lite
Cheers -