Eclipse this weekend

[Gargamel]

We’ll merge this into the news thread when it’s done, but I wanted to post it in the open so people know about it. 

https://apnews.com/article/8c518d66e7ecc9236000652cd5358f26

[StrandedonEarth]

Weather forecast for the Wet Coast is not promising... 

Edited May 14, 2022 by StrandedonEarth

[cubinator]

Moon will be two days from periapsis, so extra big in the sky!

[sevenperforce]

On 5/14/2022 at 11:08 AM, StrandedonEarth said:

Weather forecast for the Wet Coast is not promising... 

Terrible here on the east coast.

[StrandedonEarth]

42 minutes ago, sevenperforce said:

Terrible here on the east coast.

Clouds are teasing me tonight. I gave up hope after a day of rain, but right now the eastern horizon is mostly clear. But the Moon won't rise for another 25 minutes and the clouds are moving back in that way....

But I'm rigging my phone to my little pentax monocular(AirMiles special pos) anyways, just in case

E: Yup, Moon should be up now, but there's hardly any sky visible, and certainly not where the Moon should be...

Edited May 16, 2022 by StrandedonEarth

[cubinator]

I went to a local astronomy event and saw the eclipse, a Starlink train, ISS, an occultation of a star, the Hercules cluster, the Sombrero, Pinwheel, and Whirlpool galaxies, and a bunch of constellations.

[JoeSchmuckatelli]

I stayed up to watch it...

 

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Rain.

[Entropian]

The clouds here cleared up just before the end of totality and I managed to get this nice shot, though it's badly mosaiced (I do deep sky imaging, not planetary):