Total Lunar Eclipse Saturday March 3rd 2007

It was a fab night here in Dublin, I got so much data (over 1GB) that it'll take days to sort through. I was mainly concentrating on getting as many stars as possible in my shots for parallax co-ordination with Sky at Night.
Anyway here's the first - not the prettiest, as I was doing this for scientific purpose - still its pretty enough. I count about 27 stars in this shot - how 'bout you?


Shot with Canon350D and Celestron C102SLT @ ISO400, 10 second exposure from Lat N 53 16 30, Lon W 06 20 12, shot at 23:24:27 on 03-03-2007.

I thinl I can beat that! I got nearly 10GB.

Hi Guys,

That was a great eclipse. Seeing the moon quite dim with stars nearby (in binoculars) made it look like one of those "artist's impression of a distant planet" pictures you see in the astro mags sometimes. Beautiful sight. Saturn looked lovely nearby too. I'm also amazed that it was such a clear night, as Bangor is such a terrible astronomy location. It's pouring here now so the Lord must have been listening to me last night!

Simon

Hi all

Checking my notes from last night I see that at 22.40 that the region of the moon north of Plato and Mare Frigoris had definitely taken on a blue-green hue, and it was a nice contrast to the copper colour in the southern region.

It was a great eclipse and I would like to congratulate everyone on their excellent photographs.

Paul

Great images lads, I re-read the last few pages here written during the eclipse, and you can really get the atmosphere, this is what this website is all about.
I think the eclipse image winner will be from the eastern or northern side of the country, over here in the west we were hazed out for alot of it.

During totality, the moon was almost invisible through the haze with the naked eye, one edge of it did stay brighter then the rest of the disk. Looking at starrynight, one edge of the moon did stay particularly close to the umbra/penumbra edge which explains the edge, the moon did not pass through the center of the shadow.
I'll be spending the next few days processing the images.

I'm just watching this one and leaving the camera to one side - it's a while since I saw a lunar eclipse.

It would have been interesting to see what the modified 300d could have done with the eclipse.