Lunar Eclipse Montage by AstronomyMan
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Hi 'Rosity Friends. I am still stuck on this planet until my cheque comes.
Took some pictures of the lunar eclipse with my rinky dinky little telescope. Three pictures here timed at 21:33pm (partial growing eclipse), 22:33pm (total eclipse) and 23:33pm (partial shrinking eclipse). Positioned the images on this montage so you can see the full size of the earth's shadow compared to the size of the moon (imagine the black circle covering the red moon and cutting the other two images in half).
Was a fun night. Wife and I drank beer outside with the Chimenea going and watched the moon change in the most beautiful way.
Telescope not too happy though. It froze to the ground and its little moving parts all seized. Oh well, the price you pay for being a total nerd.
Enjoy
Comments (16)
doarte
Unique! +5 from doarte’s MADHOUSE RAT-A-BATTS
TwoPynts
As usual, inforamtive and humorous commentary. I'm glad you stepped up to the plate and provided us a very lovely capture of the moon in these stages. VERY clever of you to show the Earth's shadow like that, it would never have occurred to me. I hope your 'scope is feeling better.
Cosine
Excellent idea, and well implemented. I really like this one.
Kartika
Excellent work!
Doriutz
superb work :)
viper
Thanks for sharing. I am glad it was clear skys for some, going to be 2010 before I get another chance.
alphalioness
Lucky you...It was overcast and drizzly here so I didn't get to see a thing...Great shots :D
babuci
Fascinating colage.
countess8
beautiful image sorry to hear your telescope froze hope you can fix it cheaply great pic and for a nerd you tooka excellent pic and made me laugh into the bargain cj xx
NefariousDrO
That's a great montage. I got myself side-tracked and totally missed it, so it's especially nice to see a good photo of the event.
blackhawk
I love your work.
GiMi53
One of the best eclipse shots seen here ! Congratulations for your selection in LWitG (Last Week in the Gallery – week 08-2008 ) !
mamabobbijo
They never look this good in the science mags, send it to a few. Hope the telescope is fixable.
Staticon
Glad to hear that the telescope recovered from it's ordeal. :-D Excellent shot though. Congratulations for inclusion in LWitG.
fredster66
Superb work!
prae
It's always cold when there is something interesting to watch. Fantastic image and some how a bit spooky.