Saturday night, March 3, 2007!

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O wow, the full moon will be rising eclipsed, here in the Eastern Time Zone. That ought to be impressive.

Yep, I was lucky enough to see an 'eclipse rising' a few years back. I'm hoping I get to see the whole thing start to finish here in Wales, but am not holding my breath. I've only seen one eclipse unhindered from start to finish. I've completely missed quite a few due to cloud, and seen bits of others in between the cloud. Fingers crossed though - it is a beautiful sight.

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I helping out on an eclipse watch hike on Saturday. The forecast is for overcast with snow.

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Swift, you have my sympathy. We're forecast cloudy patches, so I'm hopeful of seeing most of it, but here in March, the weather can turn on a dime without warning.

Keep your fingers crossed mate, you never know.....

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looks like it's gonna be snowing around here... so there might be no lunar eclipse observation for me at all

post pictures people!

The weather in the north of England this time of year is Volatile to say the least, It's a fingers crossed situation for decent seeing on Saturday.

THe current forecast for us is improving. It will definitely be clear at sunset. There is a band of cloud due in the early hours, so fingers crossed I'll be seeing the moon passing in to the shadow. I may not see the second part. The weather for Liverpool is better Torque. The cloud is pushing up from the South West for you later in the night so you should see the lot!

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I was listening to Oceansound, my local radio, in the car this afternoon. The female DJ was going on about how there was a full moon last night, and it looked nice, and there were lots of stars out, but because it was a full moon she was unable to sleep...

And I was thinking, I wonder if it was an actual full moon rather than just a gibbous one? I must check when I get home.

Then a moment later, she said, "And there's an eclipse tonight."

I thought, Wow! An eclipse a whole day after the full moon! How does that work, then?

Well, it amused me.

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The met check is still looking good for liverpool, my wife is now organising coffee and butties to take up to the observatory..........

Where I am it is still Friday; the eclipse is tomorrow, surely.

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Just checked. You're right. That DJ was clueless.

Where I am it is still Friday; the eclipse is tomorrow, surely



Organizing in the logistic sense that is.

The eclipse is today. And who is shirley?

g*es, that joke doesn't work so well on BAUT

Weather still looking good over here for tonight





............Stop calling me Shirley!!

25 minutes to go and the sky is clear.We're due to be cloudless for the next four hours. Oh please let those wonderful forcasters be right! Pretty please?!

Happy observing folks.

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the weather here (ormskirk, lancashire, england) is looking good for tonights viewing...the problem is, I don't what time the eclipse is at. Does anyone know?
I cant make head nor tail of the chart in the first post.

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The Moon will rise at sunset. The time in the chart is given in Universal Time (UT). For those in England, this should be the local time. The P1 and P4 lables indicate when the Moon enters/leaves the Earth's penumbral shadow. The U1 and U4 labels indicate when the Moon enters/leaves the Earth's umbral shadow. The U2 and U3 labels indicate points within the umbral shadow.

I hope you have better weather than we have!

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Guys, get to your windows NOW, the moon seems to be almost fully eclipsed. And it's only 6:30pm here. I've never EVER seen the moon eclipse this early in the evening. MOVE!!!

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Evening? Its midnight!

It was beautiful, as long as the clouds moved out of the way.

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It's not over yet, by a long chalk. Not even mid-eclipse at the moment. To the upper right, you can see Regulus and Saturn...

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Absolutely beautiful. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.[

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well the skies are full of clouds here... it started out good and in an hour or two the sky got filled with clouds.... so no eclipse for me tonight.... I can see it a little bit through the clouds... so I looked at it with my binoculars, I can tell it's eclipsed but I can barely see anything...




what a disappointment

The skies here have been free of cloud for the whole of the eclipse so I should have had a good view. After years of missing eclipses because of cloud - going back and forth to see if it's clear, tonight I could go out from time to time to see how it's progressing: a red/orange colour at the moment.

But it has been completely ruined for me because some idiot running some business in the centre of Leicester has decided that skybeams - I think that's what they're called - are a good idea. I've been watching the Moon with three constantly moving rays of light wider than the Moon sweeping across it. The source is on the horizon to the south east about a mile away and the beams are reaching Capella - I'm about 52N.

If I had a suitable camera to take photos of the eclipse they would be wrecked by this light pollution. This is the second weekend I've seen these lights shining over halfway across the sky. I was hoping last weekend was a one off. I'm told you need planning permission for lights like this, so I will be contacting the council on Monday.

The problem is I don't know exactly where the lights are coming from. There wouldn't have been anyone else in Leicester on this board watching the eclipse tonight and saw these horrible beams would there? It might make it easier to find the source if someone else saw them from a different part of the city.

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Can't see anything at all here. All day it has been like twilight. Go figure.

I wanted to take a good picture for the Astronomy photos thread.

Just kick me in the head.

well, I got a little bit of luck, I was able to catch it in time just as it started to end
so I took a few pictures... but I have crappy equipment so I don't think they'll turn out to good, and I have shaky hands... so putting a camera up to binoculars is not the best solution for me! lol

although I did not get to see totality, I was very satisfied since it had only started to end when the skies cleared

It looks funny up there, with a chunk out of it in the wrong place. It's a little disturbing, even though I know it's just Earth's shadow playing tricks.

It rose as it was just coming out of totality here. A few banks of clouds passed in front of it, and then cleared out. A peculiar sight to see a "crescent" Moon in the east just after sunset!

From the brightness and red coloring of the umbra, totality must have been quite a treat.

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WOW! in thirty years of observing that was one of the best!!

Through a wide angle eyepiece during totality it looked so surreal.

we got back in about 1.45 had supper and drank a bottle of Shiraz truly an astronomical night.....

I went to Newtonhill with the Aberdeen AS to see it. It was a field of waving Meade. There were really cool telescopes there to look at other things like Saturn, M42, M45, M44, M53.

The fully eclipsed moon was eery though. When you look at it through a telescope, you see faint stars right next to it, which just doesn't look right to someone who is used to seeing a full moon wash out everything within a few degrees. Very strange sight.

When the shadow was about 60% covering the moon, that was the profound time. Enough of the moon was shaded for the bright part to not washout the dark part, and the shadow had a large enough boundary to show very clearly it was a shadow being cast by a disc shaped object. Then you think about what that disk is and you realise that it's Earth. That's profound!