I'm tempted at getting up at 3am for the eclipse, going off sky safari it won't be full until around 6? What time is everyone getting up or staying up? I have plenty of coffee.
I'd love to get some snaps through the scope.
Cheers
Karl
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The penumbral eclipse begins just after 3am. Penumbrals are only barely detectable to the human eye. Probably not worth getting up till the partial starts at 4:24am.
They start at 5am in Sydney (at the Observatory), so I will do the same and leave home at about a quarter to 5... I would not mind going out earlier, but I am not sure it is quite safe in the middle of the night.
I’m thinking of getting up around 5am and checking it out. Expecting a bit of cloud out but that’s nothing new for Melbourne and any astronomical event haha
being in the best state to see this in its entirety I might be tempted to stay up all night. hopefully the cloud disappears by then or its going to be not worth it.
Huge, thick bank of cloud covering it at the moment from Sydney, but if that passes under it on time it looks like it might be nice and clear from then on.
Here in W Europe under the scorching heat wave with temps of about 35 C it is after sunset, the Moon rises totally eclipsed.
I already packed my stuff in the car and drive after an hour to view it.
BTW, this eclipse is the longest (1:43 hours) before 19 Jun 2146 (1:45 min), but not the longest of this century, that was on 16 Jul 2000 (1:46 hrs).
BTW, I am curious about images taken from JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) which is 1.5 million km behind Earth and now the Moon is between Earth and JWST. From there the (literally dark side of the) Moon passes in front of the dark Earth with a reddish ring (which makes the eclipsed Moon red).
It looked pretty bad from Toongabbie half an hour ago, but now there is a big hole in the clouds and the viewing is great. Worth going outside and checking every now and then.
Clouds had spoiled the last four total lunar eclipses in Adelaide. I was therefore happy to find out I was going to be away on holidays up at the Gold Coast for this event as I assumed Adelaide would miss out again. But it looks like Adelaide are getting clear skies this time. Same here in the Gold Coast. Just woke up with half the more eclipsed.
Cloud could not have done a better job obscuring it all here in Sydney 
