total eclipse wasn’t great up here in, streetlights plus a high very thin layer of mist cloubd killed that a wee bit, going in and especially coming out of total eclipse was brilliant though.
last time i see one it was much much red-er. and that wasn’t a super eclipse.
Think I’ll keep an eye out for the next one and chrystal clear skies and head down to galloway dark sky park! 🙂
Despite almost every kitchen and outdoor light in the neighbourhood being on (why do people do that?) there are definitely more stars visible than usual. I managed to see part of the eclipse about 40 mins ago, through some trees, I think I missed it looking red
Just back and scoffing some toast after a 4hr session on Craigellachie near Aviemore. High hazy cloud ruined most of the spectacle but I still had a bit of an epiphany while cosied up in my bivvy bag sipping coffee.
I didn’t have the hill to myself either. There was a mob of staff from the local Italian Restaurant up there having a party!
I was up anyway at 3 giving antibiotics, made a bit of a racket doing that, so woke the whole family anyway and we all got a great view. Moon all red and just coming out of eclipse.
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I know one thing,
It’s bloody hard to photograph without a tripod. With a wide-open aperture the exposure is a second and a half; impossible to hand-hold.
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Agreed a tripod is really useful, but try spot exposing the moon itself and shooting at around125sec with aperture around f9-11.
Echo what seosam says, seen it much reder and bigger than that because the last luna eclipse I saw was when the moon was nearer the horizon. 2018 has two of the buggers so don’t fret, not too long to wait.
Would have been perfect here. eclipse was straight out of my office window, across the water, between 15 and 6 degrees above the horizon. There’s a pretty good telescope in the office too, and it’s less than 2 miles from where I’m living.
Woke up with the alarm at 4 am. Cloudy. Back to bed!
I sat outside in the back garden from about 02:30 until 03:15 watching it slowly get more and more obscured by the shadow.
More practice required on getting the focus spot on.
Taken around 21:00
Taken around 03:00
(apologises, but my manual focus skills were clearly lacking on this one, but it gives you an idea)
Amazing. Crashing round the spooky fields behind us at 3.30, remarkable. Annoyed with myself though as I couldn’t remember how to turn off the auto mode on either camera and so they refused to take a shot – too dark!! Fool.
I only got a wee one 🙂 [url=https://flic.kr/p/yTMPZV]Lunar Eclipse 28th Sept[/url] by Kit Carruthers, on Flickr
And this was about 10 minutes after full eclipse ended, I think [url=https://flic.kr/p/yUanJA]Partial Lunar Eclipse 28th September[/url] by Kit Carruthers, on Flickr
Was pretty spectacular tonight too. Looked huge over the treetops, and the hazy sky was all lit up so that through the trees of Tunnel Hill the sky looked on fire too.