[Chaos-l] Fwd: Total lunar eclipse session?

[sroy6855 at msn.com]

I got up at 4am and drove around a bit to find a good place to watch and photograph the eclipse.  I could see the moon Ok but it was a little foggy in places.  I ended up in at a rural church parking lot in northern Durham county that had a great western view.  It was a lighted parking lot but the lighting was not an issue on the western horizon. The eclipse started at about 4:50 or so and became total at 5:50 or so.  It was very humid but my lenses didn't fog up.  The moon was quite high in the sky, 35 to 40 degrees, for some reason I thought it would have been lower on the horizon. This eclipse was quite a bit different from the one that occurred earlier this year.  For this one, at total eclipse you couldn't see the moon at all.  I took a few pics.  The link to the photos is  http://www.racgallery.com/v/sli22sli/<http://www.racgallery.com/v/sli22sli/>  Sims Roy
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  From: BOBI GALLAGHER<mailto:vega13705 at verizon.net> 
  To: Jayme Hanzak<mailto:jhanzak at unctv.org> ; mot36 at earthlink.net<mailto:mot36 at earthlink.net> ; CHAOS<mailto:chaos-l at rtpnet.org> 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:43 PM
  Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] Fwd: Total lunar eclipse session?


  I started watching around 4:30 in front of my house, with a poor Western 
  view.  Then migrated to a Starbucks, which opened at 5:30 for the last 15 
  minutes before it disappeared. I used my 15x70 binocs. It was kind of neat, 
  because the light in the parking lot was not really an issue, and some of 
  the straggling few folks blundering by on their way to work were interested. 
  Plus the baristas were interested. So, astronomy outreach !!

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  From: "Jayme Hanzak" <jhanzak at unctv.org<mailto:jhanzak at unctv.org>>
  To: <mot36 at earthlink.net<mailto:mot36 at earthlink.net>>; "CHAOS" <chaos-l at rtpnet.org<mailto:chaos-l at rtpnet.org>>
  Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:24 AM
  Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] Fwd: Total lunar eclipse session?


  > mot36 at earthlink.net<mailto:mot36 at earthlink.net> on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 7:05 AM -0500 wrote:
  >>I just watched as much of the eclipse as I could.  I got up at five and
  >>found a bite taken off the top of the moon.  At that time I guess the moon
  >>was at least 45 degrees above the SW horizon.   At 5:45 aproximately the
  >>last, bottom, sliver disappeared but I couldn't see the disk, supposedly
  >>reddish, because of the morning fog.  I never found the moon again.  I
  >>imagine it came back on (it always did in the past), but by then the sky
  >>was getting light again, and the moon was very low.   I saw an airplane
  >>flying over Chapel Hill and I thought, They must have a good view up
  >>there.
  >>Margareta
  >
  > I started looking at the same time Margareta. As long as there was a
  > sliver of the moon visible with sun light, I knew where the moon was  As
  > soon as the moon slipped into full eclipse, I lost it in the fog as well.
  > Did anyone have a fogless horizon?
  >
  >
  >
  > Jayme
  >
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