Tonight should be interesting, moon, sky stuff
 

Tonight would be a big night if we were still beating drums at Stonehenge.

Tonight at 9:26pm CST will be the midpoint of the full lunar eclipse.

4 minutes later at 9:30 CST will be the full moon.

At the same time, the Navy plans to shoot down that spy satellite.

That's just too much stuff happening at once.

How cool would it be if the satellite was shot down in front of the eclipsed red moon. I'm pretty sure the satellite is going to be over the Pacific, so that probably rules that out.

Of course, none of this matters since it's completely overcast here.

Clear sky's and 8 below here. Should be an amazing sight.

A full lunar eclipse is spooky. Blood red light bathing everything.

The weather is going to block my view tonight. This is the reason I lost interest in astronomy. I would spend hours planning a session of observing and get screwed by the weather most of the time. It got so disgusting that I sold my telescopes.

Damn. Wish I had the Celestron C90 that I'm shopping for.

Oh no! The dragon's going to eat the moon!

A relative of mine is in the Navy - piloting a C140 or some equivalent electronics-laden plane photographing and tracking the shoot-down. I imagine the folks in the International Space Station hope the targeting folks can keep the two space objects separate. :eek:

Sherwood

May be rain here, too bad.

Mostly overcast here. If it was a little warmer, I'd be ok hanging out watching for the eclipse through the openings in the clouds. Unfortunately, it's cold enough that waiting 20 minutes for a glimpse is just not worth it. Aargh.

I can see it right now!

Pretty cool looking from Florida.

Me Too! :)

1/8 sec

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/8206/eclipse1ow6.jpg

1 sec (shaky)

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/4221/eclipse2op5.jpg

We have a Nexstar 130. It would be great but we're too wimpy to brave the 7 degree viewing weather. Brrrrrr!

Overcast in Phoenix... looks like it's going to break up in an hour or so. Grrr.

Magnificent view here

Thanks for the heads up

Looking at it right now !!!! Looks very cool, just a slither showing


Matt

Crystal clear sky here. Perfect view

cool

Too bad my tri-pod is at my cabin!!!
Oh well, I'm sure there'll be some good shots on the net?
my attempt, freehand:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1203565139.jpg

It's a bust for me as well. Full tripod, big lens, clouds moved out of the way, but the atmosphere did not play nice and all the pics look fuzzy in camera. I will see if any turned out in photoshop in a bit :(.

Too little light for autofocus, too little light for my eyes to work right with the focus, but not horrible...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1203565553.jpg


I'd have to double check but if memory serves - 300mm lens set at about 280, 2x teleconverter (Nikon D50 so effectively 840mm), ISO 400, F6.3 @ 1/4sec.

Couple more...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1203565993.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1203566024.jpg

Here's one of my baaaad ones......

Sorry to hear about your misfortunate weather Dave!
I was looking forward to YOUR photos, darn :mad:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1203565836.jpg

Here's a moonlight shot that I took at my cabin this summer though..... much better ;)
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1203565988.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1203566042.jpg

Here's what my sky looked/s like this evening
http://www.groupelacasse.com/gl_admi...k_charcoal.jpg

The folks over at the cloudynights.com forums have some pretty good pics up, already.

http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=2206914&page=0&view=coll apsed&sb=5&o=all&fpart=1&vc=1&PHPSESSID=143f78a648 da70338e81e3a8b7b3feda

Saw this on another forum:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1203567626.jpg

Well, the moon shots were pretty dismal. The photo forum I visit, is turning up the same thing. I have only seen one picture there that was really sharp.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1203568642.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1203568661.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1203568671.jpg
An attempt at painting with light ^^
I'll attempt a full moon shot well, next full moon. SmileWavy

had a perfectly clear sky in ne ohio......been years and years since i got to see a total lunar eclipse, good stuff :)
the pics above are awesome :)

I may have a little surprise picture. Tonight may have not been a total loss....

I took this 20 minutes ago, post eclipse, no longer a true full moon. The lens I have used for the previous partial moon pics is not available, so, I used my Tamron 200-400mm with a 1.4 extender. It's rather optically poor, but...

490mm
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1203576862.jpg

Oh, my surprise didn't work out. My dad has the magical lens and he took a pic with the moon at a better angle, but it had the same distortions.