Alright, this is for sharing of your observation experience. Or, if you are arranging gatherings, star-gazing expeditions or just want some company to go observing together, you can shout it out here.
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
@kensou: Since Moon will be setting towards the West, any location with an unblocked view to the west will be a good place observe or take photos. At 6 am when the eclipse official ends, Moon is about 14 degrees above the western horizon.
If you want to take eclipse photos with nice foreground/background objects, then you may need to do more planning ahead of time. Once you find the a nice spot, you can try a few dry runs shooting the moon on the few days leading up the the eclipse at that location. This will improve your prediction and composition of how the shot will look like on the actual day at that chosen location. It will also help you find the best camera settings for the effects you want to achieve.
If the location also have a good eastern view, that will be a nice bonus because if you intend to stay up all the way till sunrise for the lunar eclipse, you can also observe/photograph Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Pleiades, Andromeda Galaxy rising from the east and maybe even the International Space Station (ISS) drifting across the sky between Jupiter and Mars at around 6:9:43 in the morning.
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
The movies for tonight's HD movie marathon (open air, not inside a theatre) are Avatar, Transformers 1 and Transformers 2. There should another local astronomy club involved in this event (thanks again Carole!).
This is another good opportunity for newcomers thinking buying a new telescope to check out the impressive array of telescopes that should be deployed in this event. They will also gain lots of interesting astronomical knowledge from the talks.
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
