January 31st Lunar Eclipse Thread

[RocketSimplicity]

Sorry, a bit late.

 

If you don’t know, in 2 hours (at time of writing) the moon will pass into the Earth’s shadow and create a Lunar eclipse. As well as that, it also is a Supermoon, making it a cool experience to see. If you manage to take a photo or video of it feel free to share it here. Unfortunately, it is visible from where I am (Australia) but it is cloudy... Damn you Aussie summer weather! That also happened to me last time.

Let’s Discuss!

-RS

Edited January 31, 2018 by RocketSimplicity

[Green Baron]

@James Kerman, have fun !

Greetings from the other (wrong) side of the disk :-)

Edited January 31, 2018 by Green Baron

[Hannu2]

Here in southern Finland weather is partially clear today, which is quite improbable in January, but Moon rises after full phase of the eclipse is over. So no photos or stories for next generations.

 

[StrandedonEarth]

The weather forecast is calling for waves of rain here, but ephemeral breaks in between. I could see the moon through a thin scuzz 40 minutes ago, but now I'm leaving for work and cant see it. Hopefully there's another break in 90min or so

[munlander1]

It set below the tree line for me.

Anyone observing, good luck!

[StrandedonEarth]

Not looking good here 

[Hypercosmic]

Saw it, it's very cool.

[cubinator]

I got very nice views of the partial phase, looked through binoculars until it set in the trees shortly after totality started.

[Scotius]

100% cloud cover in Poland Hopefully someone will be able to take good photos and post them on the net.

[StrandedonEarth]

Of course now I get blue skies.

 /figures 

 

[mikegarrison]

Terribly shocking, but it was cloudy in Seattle. The clouds did get dark, though, like on a moonless night.

[RocketSimplicity]

It was cloudy... Oh well, I will be able to see a Lunar eclipse in July.

[tater]

Was nice here, my wife woke up the kids, and they sat out there in the cold on  the patio with hot chocolate watching it for over an hour (no kidding).

I'm the astrophysics person, and I went out in my boxer shorts and t-shirt looked at it, said, "Yep, a lunar eclipse, all right." then went back to bed, lol.

Checked later... they were still out there, so I dragged the binos and telescope out for a while.

[James Kerman]

I managed to see it, but I only had my phone so the image quality is very poor.  It looked way more impressive than it appears here.

[ProtoJeb21]

I didn’t even know that my area would see any part of the eclipse...until I saw a large red moon with a fuzzy chunk taken out of it on my way to school that morning. 

[cubinator]

6 minutes ago, ProtoJeb21 said:

I didn’t even know that my area would see any part of the eclipse...until I saw a large red moon with a fuzzy chunk taken out of it on my way to school that morning. 

That must have been a pleasant surprise!