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[wheelinround]

Eyes to the skies for lunar event

Eyes to the skies for lunar event - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Updated Fri Jun 25, 2010 4:44pm AEST
File photo (ABC News: Giulio Saggin)


Sky watchers in central and eastern Australia will be treated to a lunar eclipse on Saturday night if the weather allows it.
A partial eclipse will start at about a 8:15pm AEST or 7:45pm ACST and end nearly three hours later.
Astronomer David Reneke says a lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth is between the sun and the moon, casting its shadow.
"You'll see the moon, a little bite being taken out of the side, like when a kid takes a bite out of a biscuit or a cookie," he said.
"You don't need binoculars, you don't need a telescope.
"It won't hurt your eyes - stand there and look at it as long as you want to."
He also says it is easy to take a photo if the partial eclipse is visible from the ground.
"If anyone wants to take a photo of it, it won't be hard to do with an ordinary camera as long as you can set it on a tripod and maybe give it one or two seconds' exposure time you should come up with a nice photo," he said.

[RufflyRustic]

About 8:30pm or so last night I was out ready to start baying at the full moon but got sidetracked by the most gorgeous full ring around the full moon, with just a sliver of eclipse starting, but most impressive of all was the rainbow around it all. If ever I wanted to be a photographer of night sky objects, it was last night. then by 9pm it was all cloudy and we had a shower of rain

Did anyone else check it out last night?

[Cliff Rogers]

Overcast & raining here.

[Terry B]

Cloud!!!

[watson]

Couldn't work her new supa dupa camera...so took four mediocre pics with the old one.
Will post them later today.

[wheelinround]

Trees got in the way for the start from there just to cold outside so no photo's at all

[watson]

Technical expertise got in the way of my pics.
Not good...........but geez it was cold.

Pic 1...........Oh goody....I found the viewfinder.....and the moon!!
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Pic 2..........Found the 'MAKE IT BIGGER" control.
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Pic 3.........Weird shape.....found it was the cat sticking its nose in.
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Pic 4........An hour later........Bloody Cold Now.
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Pic 5........One day....curiosity really will kill this cat.
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That's my lot.......back inside near the fire.

[wheelinround]

Well done Noel

[watson]

Told you it was getting cold.........these were taken the next morning.
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[wheelinround]

Noel think you best go see the Dr looks a bit dead

Nice shots make that excellent shots