Lunar eclipse from Mt Pleasant, South Australia

[Paul Haese]

Hi all,

we had some high cloud early on but that dissipated an hour or so after sunset. Some airglow about too and had I known Aurora visible to the south.

Was really nice to get out and see the event. I watched the last couple of minutes through a set of binoculars which was really awesome. Never done that before and will do it again next time.

edit added another from earlier

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

Man that's a funky widefield. It almost has the look (if it weren't for so many stars) of a solar eclipse.

[h0ughy (David)]

well executed - i tried something similar but lacked the skill and time - was tinkering with too many cameras

[RB (Andrew)]

Very cool.

[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys for the comments.

Originally Posted by LightningNZ

Man that's a funky widefield. It almost has the look (if it weren't for so many stars) of a solar eclipse.

Yes it does give that impression. I did mask in a less bright image of the moon and this is probably creating that illusion. My aim was to show what I actually saw. The outer halo should not be there of course.