Thread: Photos of upcoming lunar eclipse?

Also Perseid meteor showers on the nights of 12 & 13 Aug (might be 11 & 12 in Oz). New moon on 12 Aug (11 Aug?) enhances visibility. As many as 100 flashes per hour.

Joe

Got the Lunar eclipse booked in Last partial eclipse I saw was when Halleys Comet left our solar system last century. The gas and dust tails were great to see that night.


Are the Perseid meteor showers for the northern hemisphere only?

cheers
Wendy

I was listening to a bloke from the observatory this morning. Apparently it only appears to be a perseid meteor shower. The shower is because the Earth is passing through the dust from comet Tutt. The meteors will appear to come from near the horizon & you will probably have to be in a dark location to see them. (According to the observatory.)

Ernie.

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Just in case anyones interested in combining photography and telescopes, there's a lunar eclipse coming soon. August 28th, from 8:51AM-12:24AM GMT with totality between 9:50AM-11:20AM GMT (add 10 hours for AEST. )

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...amyeclipse.htm

Me thinks the time sequence is incorrect 8.51am GMT to 1224am is 20 hours thats longest eclipse known to man its ok I am dyslexic also.

if you add 10 hours to GMT you'll miss it we are 10 hours ahead which would make it about 10pm+ here

But thanks won't miss it a full moon on 28th a fantastic eclipse to see.
will we see a full snow dump

Just found this site about the eclipse. Might help with viewing times.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/?id=63,409,0,0,1,0

cheers
Wendy

Originally Posted by rufflyrustic

Just found this site about the eclipse. Might help with viewing times.
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/?id=63,409,0,0,1,0

cheers
Wendy

Reading that it will be at 0715 hrs ty Wendy

hmmm, I read that I should out at my viewing station (no idea where that will be yet) by 17:54 or 5:54 pm

Brisbane (EST)17:54 (6°)18:51 (18°)19:52 (31°)20:37 (40°)21:22 (50°)22:24 (61°)23:21 (70°)

Wheeling - Hinchinbrook? - as in Ingham, North Queensland?

If so, your times would be the same as mine. Wouldn't they?

cheers
Wendy

Originally Posted by rufflyrustic

Are the Perseid meteor showers for the northern hemisphere only?

They appear to propagate from the constellation Perseus, hence the name. Just above your northern horizon, so not as spectacular as in the northern hemisphere. Dark sky of the new moon might help a bit, but it won't help me see the Southern Cross.

Joe

This is what happens when you convert from UT to GMT and then to AEST when by any one of them it's well past sleepy byebye time. [sigh]

Originally Posted by rufflyrustic

hmmm, I read that I should out at my viewing station (no idea where that will be yet) by 17:54 or 5:54 pm

Brisbane (EST)17:54 (6&#17618:51 (18&#17619:52 (31&#17620:37 (40&#17621:22 (50&#17622:24 (61&#17623:21 (70&#176

Wheeling - Hinchinbrook? - as in Ingham, North Queensland?

If so, your times would be the same as mine. Wouldn't they?

cheers
Wendy

Looking at that we are in the P1 sector I just read the time 07:52:11 I didn't do conversion to our time so makes me as bad as Skew

I wish Hinchinbrook NQLD saldy its NSW Western Sydney even here times will be the same except the polution will make it darker

Got this email message from a contact in US

Original Message -----

Two moons on August 27, 2007

*27th Aug the Whole World is waiting for.............*

Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August.

It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will
culminate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth. Be
sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am . It will look like the earth
has 2 moons. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.

Originally Posted by K_S

Got this email message from a contact in US

Original Message -----

Two moons on August 27, 2007

*27th Aug the Whole World is waiting for.............*

Planet Mars will be the brightest in the night sky starting August.

It will look as large as the full moon to the naked eye. This will
culminate on Aug. 27 when Mars comes within 34.65M miles of earth. Be
sure to watch the sky on Aug. 27 12:30 am . It will look like the earth
has 2 moons. The next time Mars may come this close is in 2287.

Thanks for that info I'd stay up to see that.

??

Mars was at it's closest to Earth for the first time in yonks, some 50,000 years, on August 27 2003. It won't be any closer until August 28, 2287, although it does come fairly close to Earth every 26 months or so. (I think) Which makes this December the time of close approach, not August.

I don't exactly remember anyone wondering what that red moon was back in '03, do you? Although I was out there at the time, on the pointy end of my tellingscope looking for li'l green men waving at me.

Sounds like someone's a tad guilty of hyperbole....

http://www.universetoday.com/2007/07...ugust-27-nope/