Lunar Eclipse ...tonight - 3rd March

[Marts]

That was great to watch

 

[leon-b]

no i didnt see saturn unfortunately but i am determined to see it as the lunar eclipse has left me wanting to see more
leon

 

[Martyn]

no i didnt see saturn unfortunately but i am determined to see it as the lunar eclipse has left me wanting to see more
leon

Well, it'll be visible in the night sky for a good few weeks yet, though it's location relative to the moon will change.

Try installing this and have a play...

http://www.stellarium.org/

Remember, dont expect to see too much from Saturn, it's visible to the naked eye but just looks like another star. You need somne magnification to make out the rings.

 

[leon-b]

thanks i just installed it, so how can i tell if its saturn or not ?
leon

 

[Draven]

I saw it, twas pretty cool

Though I'm really holding out my astronomical excitement for the solar maximum, which should arrive between 2010-2012 For anyone unaware, the maximum is when the solar activity is highest in the solar cycle. They're saying that this'll be the strongest one since 1958, when the northern lights were seen as far south as Mexico

 

[Martyn]

thanks i just installed it, so how can i tell if its saturn or not ?
leon

...from it's position relative to the moon and other stars.

 

[geo_chris]

Spent the evening with my 8 year old daugther watching the eclipse with a telescope in our spare bedroom whilst my 15 year old was out with my wife at the ballet. I had to explain what was happening, drawing pictures so that she could understand. A very enjoyable evening starring in to the sky.

When my wife and older daughter returned from the ballet and I pointed out the eclipse and she reminded me that I had done the same thing with her a few years ago when we had the solar eclipse.

Thinking back I can remember watching the comet that visible in the sky (was visible for a couple of days/weeks) with my eldest son, who is now 20, back when he was about 5 -- can't remember the comet's name, can someone jog my aging memory?

 

[leon-b]

ok martyn
thanks leon

 

[bikething]

Thinking back I can remember watching the comet that visible in the sky (was visible for a couple of days/weeks) with my eldest son, who is now 20, back when he was about 5 -- can't remember the comet's name, can someone jog my aging memory?

was that the halle-bopp one i didn't think it was that long ago (i must be getting old )

 

[Martyn]

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Thinking back I can remember watching the comet that visible in the sky (was visible for a couple of days/weeks) with my eldest son, who is now 20, back when he was about 5 -- can't remember the comet's name, can someone jog my aging memory?

Hale Bop (1995)? Halley's Comet (1986), or maybe Comet Kohoutek (1974)?

 

[geo_chris]

I think it might be the halle-bop comet. It was visible with the naked eye, I can remember standing on our back step and lifting my son up so that he could see it (tall walls in a town house). That was an experience for me as it was the first and only comet that I had seen.

 

[desert_emperor]

Hi All,
I sat out in my back garden last night watching the eclipse and even put the billie can on my hexi stove to make a brew whilst watching! The sky was very clear, it was a very chilled out experience!!

All the best....Paul

 

[Toddy]

It was cool wasn't it?
Kind of something bigger than us, and after all these millenia that mankind has wandered this Earth under that big Moon up there, finally, we know why the skies change Still very special, and excellent to get such a clear view from our normally cloud covered bit of the world

We need another forum. A place to post what's happening above our world with things like a Lunar Calendar in it, maybe Tides. Perhaps a sub-forum of Out and About?

Cheers,
Toddy

 

[Tengu]

Me and my father and his wife watched it, your right, it was a very good one.

 

[woodwalker]

Fantastic views from my neck of the woods, Would have been even better to have been in the middle of nowhere with 0 light pollution though.

Still, got some good photos

woodwalker

 

[Kepis]

Few shots that i took last night

 

[Tengu]

Isnt that brill?

 

[JonnyP]

Isnt that brill?

Yeah, its amazing what you can do in paintshop and a photo of an old football...

 

[Jodie]

Bit gutted that I missed this and frankly amazed that I didn't even know it was
happening until everyone at work asked me this morning if I'd enjoyed it. Oh
well.

At least I enjoyed the transit of Venus a while back (v. handy living next door
to Greenwich observatory) and the big eclipse a few years ago where it all
went quiet and spooky in Cornwall for a few minutes.

Glad to hear it was so visible - just wish I'd known about it earlier.

 

[Zodiak]

My explorers were out in the woods this weekend so we sat and watched it round the fire. It was quite something.