Penumbral lunar eclipse, very early morning of oct 19th

Hey all,
While not been a very spectacular event, tonight's partial lunar eclipse tonight is worth having at look at if you get clear skies, it skirts the Earths shadow between 22.51 ST and 02.46 ST (Oct. 19). max eclipse at around 00.51 ST.
At maximum eclipse 76.5% of the Moon’s disk will be in the Earth’s penumbral shadow.
Have a look and see if you can detect this subtle partial eclipse.
They're forecasting a clearance in the west later this evening, so you never know...

As a bonus, comet Ison is just less then a degree from Mars tonight and is pulling away from the planet from now on, if you happen to be up after 4.30...

The way the skies are here in Dublin at this moment, we're not going to see the moon, let alone a shadow.

yea. the sky is extremely changeable, clear one minute and raining the next, got some good gaps, just glad I got so see any of it. The clouds are ripping across the sky at supersonic speeds...

and now there isnt a cloud in the sky, got an image of it, not quiet at maximum, but over an hour later unfortunately.
Subtle doesn't quiet describe it, more like obscure, the area nearest to the umbra is at the bottom of this image, so its a little darker there.

click the image to see the full size version
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Hi,

Nice image, Dave.

I got comparison images during & after the elipse.

To the naked-eye the dusky shading was clearly visible in the Southern Highlands.

See: Variable Star Nights for the images.

John

It appears we can only see the differences between a standard Full Moon and Penumbral Lunar Eclipse by photography. Valerie and I had perfect clear skies in Melbourne, Australia last November; and we could see no shading at all. Looking at both your set of photographs, Dave and John, I do see the shading quite easily.

Aubrey.