Supermoon + Eclipse = Awesome

[Stevie777]

How Super will this be.?
Checked the Weather forecast and it's looking good for Scotland for a change. Event starts around 02:00. i would check though as my hearing might have been off this morning when i heard of it..

Anyone doing a overnighter tonight might want to stay up for this. Anyone not, might want to change plans for the evening.

I'm packing a bag in 3...2...1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34352504

 

[petrochemicals]

Quite looking forward to it, the moon last night was impressive enough, so the eclipse should be good.

 

[Robbi]

Good and clear here.

 

[Tengu]

The moon here was also good. But Cornwall isnt known for clear skies.

Anyhow; Ill be dead to the world at that time.

 

[Stevie777]

Nearly....wait....wait...wait...

 

[TarHeelBrit]

For once the skies over Devon are crystal clear so it should be a good eclipse.

 

[dewi]

Just been out, nowt happening yet

 

[homesicksteve]

Shadow appearing from top-left of Moon here now.

 

[dewi]

Looks very weird... first time I've seen the moon eclipsed.

 

[MartinK9]

Here are the best of a bad bunch from a point and shoot:

Just have to wait until Morning to see whether the Triffids arrive or not....

 

[beachlover]

Took these from the beach.

 

[forestwalker]

Östersund. Just after 0500 local time.

 

[rorymax]

Was reasonably clear skies around 0140 - 0215, I did not see any red moon, but bright blue sort of half globe to bottom right of moon then same bright blue forming 2 half globes touching each other at the bottom right and bottom left of the moon, my wife and I found it quite fascinating, first time we had seen this.

Will check if the point and shoot produced any results, I went straight to bed after the eclipse so did not check last night.

I see from posted pics the RED moon, strange I did not see any of that, anyone else see the blue features that we witnessed ?

 

[homesicksteve]

Yep, the moon is not made of cheese - it's an Orange.

 

[santaman2000]

I'm jealous. We have a weather system pushing in off of the Gulf of Mexico and the clouds obscured it last night. I won't complain though, we've been needing the rain.

 

[dewi]

Wish I'd got pictures like that Beachlover... I stood out there with my iPhone, couldn't get anything like a decent picture... if I'd know how to use my wife's SLR, I may have got a decent shot... just have to wait another 30 years.

 

[Stevie777]

Was reasonably clear skies around 0140 - 0215, I did not see any red moon, but bright blue sort of half globe to bottom right of moon then same bright blue forming 2 half globes touching each other at the bottom right and bottom left of the moon, my wife and I found it quite fascinating, first time we had seen this.

Will check if the point and shoot produced any results, I went straight to bed after the eclipse so did not check last night.

I see from posted pics the RED moon, strange I did not see any of that, anyone else see the blue features that we witnessed ?

The event started around 02:07 and went on for over an hour. Maybe you went to bed too early.?

I was watching it through some trees. Not the supermoon as predicted, but like a solar eclipse, yeah, you could watch the shadow take nibbles from the moon until it turned a reddy brown colour.

 

[John Fenna]

I saw it briefly when I got up for a mid-night pee - too sleepy to take photos...

 

[mousey]

I set my alarm, then promptly slept right through it

Although freakily when I got up in the morning I would have sworn that I did get up to watch it - I had dreamed getting up and even waking my son up to get him to look out of the window, but my wife confirmed that I actually didn't....

 

[Stevie777]

I set my alarm, then promptly slept right through it

Although freakily when I got up in the morning I would have sworn that I did get up to watch it - I had dreamed getting up and even waking my son up to get him to look out of the window, but my wife confirmed that I actually didn't....

Nothing worse than those dreams when you have dremt you went to work, did a full shift then woke up to find you had a full shift ahead of you.