Lunar Eclipse

[WhoTom]

I don't have much use for an alarm clock these days, but I did set mine to wake me at 5AM (CST) today to catch the lunar eclipse in mid-totality.

 

No pics of this one - we were living in the moment - but here's a little something from 2003. That eclipse occurred in the early evening, so I set up a camera on a tripod, took a pic every ten minutes or so, compiled the best images, and used some free animation software to show the Moon passing through the Earth's shadow.

 

Edited November 8, 2022 by WhoTom

[muppy]

beautiful optics Tom well done 🙂

[Nextmanup]

I saw it around 4am.  Pretty cool.

 

It was the "beaver moon" or some such.  LOL

 

 

[LeGOATski]

2 hours ago, Nextmanup said:

I saw it around 4am.  Pretty cool.

 

It was the "beaver moon" or some such.  LOL

 

 

"Beaver Blood Moon"

 

Can't make this stuff up

[WhoTom]

6 minutes ago, LeGOATski said:

"Beaver Blood Moon"

 

Seems like that would be a monthly occurrence.

[Gugny]

1 hour ago, WhoTom said:

 

Seems like that would be a monthly occurrence.

 

I remember my Aunt Flo telling me about this once.

[Just Jack]

1 hour ago, Gugny said:

 

I remember my Aunt Flo telling me about this once.

 

If Aunt Flo is visiting you every month, you have some explaining to do. 

[Gugny]

Just now, Just Jack said:

 

If Aunt Flo is visiting you every month, you have some explaining to do. 

 

She doesn't visit me.  The only time I ever visited her was to watch a Red Wings game.  It was a mess.

[Bad Things]

I didn't even realize we were having a lunar eclipse until I went outside before bed and saw it.

It was pretty impressive down here!

[Bad Things]

My son took this photo from the back deck last night.

 

 

 

[Beck Water]

15 hours ago, WhoTom said:

I don't have much use for an alarm clock these days, but I did set mine to wake me at 5AM (CST) today to catch the lunar eclipse in mid-totality.

 

No pics of this one - we were living in the moment - but here's a little something from 2003. That eclipse occurred in the early evening, so I set up a camera on a tripod, took a pic every ten minutes or so, compiled the best images, and used some free animation software to show the Moon passing through the Earth's shadow.

 

 

Beautiful!

 

We set an alarm and woke up to try to see the eclipse, but it was cloudy obscuring the moon  so we went back to bed.

[Nextmanup]

14 hours ago, Bad Things said:

My son took this photo from the back deck last night.

 

 

 

Hey that's a great photo!
 

 

[EmotionallyUnstable]

Are we even sure the moon is real? 

[Nextmanup]

19 hours ago, EmotionallyUnstable said:

Are we even sure the moon is real? 

Well....it's made out of green cheese, right?

Green cheese is real.

 

Therefore the moon is real.

 

🤓

[SlimShady'sSpaceForce]

Just in time

Sunrise and (near) moon set