Cheers for this. My daughter mentioned it earlier so I set up scope and was starting to get worried cause it's now an hour later and I haven't noticed anything. Am surprised IIS didn't post anything on Facebook about it, well not that I've noticed. I think it's pretty cool.
Cheers for this. My daughter mentioned it earlier so I set up scope and was starting to get worried cause it's now an hour later and I haven't noticed anything. Am surprised IIS didn't post anything on Facebook about it, well not that I've noticed. I think it's pretty cool.
Penumbral eclipses are pretty subtle events - just a touch of darkening of the Moon towards one side, depending on the degree of penetration into the Earth's penumbral shadow. Most people wouldn't even notice the difference. Don't worry about the scope, doubt you'd be able to discern anything. These are best viewed naked eye, intermittently so you can notice change.
Yep Andrew, picking it up photographically and visually now. Attached composite shows previous (pre-eclipse) image and new one taken at 12:40am AEDST. Less than half an hour to maximum now.
Just went out again and the clouds have disappeared! Will get some more shots as the shadowing is very clear now on the northern half of the Moon. Andrew, I'm using the MTO 10.5/1100 mirror lens with Canon 400D. Seeing is atrocious, but I'm stacking 5 subs.
Sure is tough viewing,
I have had a clear sky all night (for once) and only noticed hardly a half stop difference in exposure across the Lunar disc.
In past experience the Penumbral shadow has been alot easier to see both naked eye and in images, what gives ?
Here's mine, might have another look at the shots in the morning, zzzzz.
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Sure is tough viewing, I have had a clear sky all night (for once) and only noticed hardly a half stop difference in exposure across the Lunar disc. In past experience the Penumbral shadow has been alot easier to see both naked eye and in images, what gives ?
Don't know sed8me. Not the darkest I've seen but this one was pretty deep with penumbral magnitude 0.9155. Seemed fairly clear to me around maximum.
They are some pretty nice shots
I guess I will see better once I am off the Camera back and onto the BIG screen.
I will also do a comparison of previous Penumbrals I have captured.
I have a sneaking suspicion that my retinas are still BeDazzled from a fortnight ago lolz.
Just glad there was no Volcano Ash this time round !
Night peeps,
See y'all after some processing.
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Here's mine, might have another look at the shots in the morning, zzzzz.
Don't know sed8me. Not the darkest I've seen but this one was pretty deep with penumbral magnitude 0.9155. Seemed fairly clear to me around maximum.
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.
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).
Loving these photos.
I know a lot of people aren't impressed with Penumbrals because there isn't any dramatic change in brightness.
But I totally disagree.
That's like saying you don't like faint fuzzy DSO's because they are hard to see and don't show much detail.
Agree J, thats one of the reasons I went out, it's a challenge to get these sorts of things and I am happy I missed those hours of sleep to get it.. I didn't last till the end though, unfortunately I was tired and the location I was in put the moon behind a big satellite dish from our next door neighbours, I thought I had it well planned.... oh well...
Will get some more shots as the shadowing is very clear now on the northern half of the Moon. Andrew, I'm using the MTO 10.5/1100 mirror lens with Canon 400D. Seeing is atrocious, but I'm stacking 5 subs.
lolz.
