Eclipse?

[John K Jordan]

Anyone else staying up to watch the eclipse of the moon? I can see it through the bathroom skylight without going out in the cold. In the prenumbra now, noticeably darker! Touched by the earth’s umbra in just a few minutes.

The timeanddate.com website has good info with a live animated diagram under the Sun and Moon/Eclipses tab. Just enter your location or zip code.

[John K Jordan]

The real camera is down the hill in the shop. The cell phone camera is NOT up to the task!

But I got a “suggestion” of the first touch with manual focus, ISO, digital zoom and exposure - the moon itself was too bright but by shooting through the double-pane skylight an internal reflection cut the light way back and I got this (about 2:25 am:

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Pretty sad and fuzzy, but hey…

It’s spectacular through the binocs, even through the skylight glass - the umbral shadow is about 1/4 off the way across the moon now (2:43 am)

JKJ

[David Bassett]

I had just checked when I saw your post. Got to call it a bust here. We have 10/10ths cloud cover, though I guess if I stayed at it long enough the bright spot would dim a little. :(

[John K Jordan]

I had just checked when I saw your post. Got to call it a bust here. We have 10/10ths cloud cover, though I guess if I stayed at it long enough the bright spot would dim a little. :(

Bummer. Sky here is crystal clear. Just about as total as it’s going to get (3:55 am).

The view with the binoculars is fantastic, can see the red now, but for some reason the cell phone camera didn’t magically improve! 😜

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[Perry Hilbert Jr]

Cloudy here.

[Frederick Skelly]

I watched it for about a half hour, around "totality". I thought it was neat.

[Lee Schierer]

We had clouds.......

[roger wiegand]

heavy clouds and rain. I woke up to be sure.

[Lawrence Duckworth]

I slept through it :(

remember this one?...468378... 2017

[Scott Clausen]

I thought this thread was going to be about a sharpening jig. My bad. I missed it too.

[John K Jordan]

Well, this guy said he knew there were lots of people with clouds so he decided to live stream almost the whole thing, almost 5 hours! (Who said amateur astronomers were sometimes a bit obsessed?) He’s somewhere in Texas.

I listened and looked at just a few spots. Sounds like he was also running an open chat session, taking questions and commenting through much of it. I heard some general moon and eclipse info plus about his tracking hardware and software. Said he had over 4000 people watching at peak!

https://youtu.be/kiIv9j5CPlM

At about 4:25:00 he shows some highlights.

I saw some others with just highlights, much shorter! I’m sure someone will offer a nice timelapse after they get some sleep. :)

JKJ

[Jim Koepke]

We were having heavy showers and thick cloud cover.

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[Andrew Seemann]

I checked on it at about 4:30 local time on the way back from the can. It was pretty neat, but having seen them before, I didn't feel like watching it and then getting up for an early meeting:). I figured there would be some good time lapse videos available today.

[Warren Lake]

saw it came in to get the camera then got sidetracked some other thought and forgot.

[Mike Henderson]

I got up in the middle of the night but we had cloud cover and couldn't see a thing.

Mike

[Wade Lippman]

For anyone who couldn't see it... the moon gets dark. Big woop.

[Ed Aumiller]

Heavy cloud cover in Shenandoah valley of VA...
Got up and looked out, but no luck...