My intended 'naps' often turn into full sleeps by accident, but I made sure I went to sleep after 3am in Brisbane with my alarm to be adhered promptly at 5am.
Bureau's reported conditions at 6am were: 9.2°C (5.8° AT) 61% Relative Humidity 5kt windspeed (7kt gusts). Not too cold in the scheme of things but my hands did go a bit numb by the time I got back inside to unload my point-n-shoot camera memory..
The eclipse itself - very beautiful being low on the horizon (duh :p) and nicly red too from what I assume is just the moon being low on the horizon (Venus similarly gets yellow).
Of course, I caught last year's TLE, but before that it was
another PLE. That one was quite shallow but it represented my first attempt to view satellites and therefore holds a somewhat fondish memory.. The satellite tried was an Iridium flare, but since I got my friends to drive up the
elevated Mt Coot-tha (Brisbane), it destroyed the accuracy of my prediction resulting in false claims about bright lights in the sky and just a partial lunar eclipse for us.
Of course, I found out how elevation affects an Iridium flare prediction but since that time I've hopefully inspired (or at the very least intrigued) many more friends from pointing out actual satellites. Most memorable perhaps was at choir rehearsal camp this year (you read right!) when I coaxed a small group to trust me pointing at the sky to seek the ISS. It was anxiously late but it did show up a couple of minutes later beautifully bright. I later worked out that my older heavens-above prediction had updated as a result of the
ATV reboost.
Some of my clearer pics that turned out from fiddling around with manual settings (not necessarily systematic nor planned) on a point-n-shoot camera.