lunar eclipse Tuesday
- Thread starter robin wood
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more likely to late.. It's currently in it's 'in the shadow' phase..
watched the moon dissapearing (as best I can through the trees - it was low to the horizon) at about 7:40. Now we've got low lying fog so I don't expect to see it re-emerge
If you were too early you would have seen a full moon. The earths shadow started moving across the face of the moon at 6.32 reaching full eclipse at 7.40. At that time it is very low on most people's horizon you needed to get somewhere you could see a long way to the Western Horizon to see it.
I definitely missed it.
There's too much mist, you probably wouldn't see the sun.
Thanks for the heads up though, had a good morning walk.
There's too much mist, you probably wouldn't see the sun.
Thanks for the heads up though, had a good morning walk.
Managed to see it from about 1/4 left to it disappearing and take a few snaps, I will post some up later. Unfortunately I didnt get to see the return as freezing fog came in and had to get to work.
Clouds. Nuff said
Yup.... 100% cloud coverage here as well. Doubt I'll be around to see the next winter solstice lunar eclipse
Was it this morning? Because when i got up to do my paper round at 7 the moon was a funny reddy colour and it got smaller and smaller. We had a cloudless sky.
Had totally forgotten about it, got a frinds text telling me to look. Half asleep I went to look and text her back: I cant see it! She answered: Its an eclipse, doh! Hmm.... once she pointed me in the right direction I did get a look at it for a couple of minutes before the clouds moved in.
Ness
Hmm.... once she pointed me in the right direction I did get a look at it for a couple of minutes before the clouds moved in.Ness
same got up at 5 to get myself ready for a nice early start and to set the cam and stuff up... total cloud coverage not a happy bunny.
not a happy bunny.
Superb view here in Perthshire, brilliant white full moon became gradually obscured. Fully obscured by 0740, turned a dull red. Amazing.
First time on the winter solstice since the 17th c
NS
First time on the winter solstice since the 17th c
NS
It's because the Earth has an atmosphere and the light that reaches the Moon has to go the long way through that atmosphere. The light is filtered out apart from the red wavelengths which turns the Moon red. Same principle applies to sunrise and sunsets. If there wasn't an atmosphere on Earth the Moon would have blacked out completely
Above pic courtesy of wikipedia
