Lunar Eclipse at SP

adree · Post by **adree** » Wed May 05, 2004 5:34 pm

Hi all,

Was at SP this morning together with SP Astro club and others, here are some pics.

At totality at 0434hrs

Lunar Eclipse

Adrian

ariefm71 · Post by **ariefm71** » Wed May 05, 2004 6:41 pm

these are beautiful pics. bravo!

angeline · Post by **angeline** » Wed May 05, 2004 10:52 pm

WOW!!!!! coolz pics~

Post by **Airconvent** » Wed May 05, 2004 11:51 pm

ahhh..looks like you were not affected by the clouds like what happened to some and you also managed to catch the red moon..cool...

Post by **rcj** » Fri May 07, 2004 3:10 am

Hi people,
Here's my rendition of the eclipse sequence. The sequence could not be completed due to low lying clouds after totality and i was zombieified by then!
http://www.star-matrix.com/leclipse_rcjxi.jpg

Post by **Airconvent** » Sat May 08, 2004 12:24 am

rcj wrote:Hi people,
Here's my rendition of the eclipse sequence. The sequence could not be completed due to low lying clouds after totality and i was zombieified by then!
http://www.star-matrix.com/leclipse_rcjxi.jpg

Hi Remus
Nice.....Just occurred to me, is the orange colour due to the morning sun?
Seems this red moon is consistent with pics taken all over the world.
wierd man...I've seen a "Red" moon as it rises in the evening but never a red moon at sunrise.

rich

Post by **weixing** » Sat May 08, 2004 12:39 am

Hi,
I think the red colour moon is cause by the earth shine...sunlight reflected from the Earth onto the Moon.

Have a nice day.

chrisyeo · Post by **chrisyeo** » Sat May 08, 2004 7:10 pm

I don't think it's earthshine, as the moon is in earth's shadow, so there should be no light reflecting off the earth onto the moon.

I'm not sure myself what causes the red, which by the way was really spectacular when i saw it myself May 4th. Maybe some light gets scattered by earth's atmosphere so that the earth from the moon is not totally dark, but is lit up at the edges?

Chris

Sam Lee · Post by **Sam Lee** » Sun May 09, 2004 7:27 pm

The reddish effect on the moon is caused when the lights from the Sun passes through the Earth atmosphere. The atmosphere absorbs most of the lights in the blue spectrum, and reflecting the remaining red lights onto the surface of the moon.

Regards,
Sam