Lunar Eclipse Wednesday Evening

TheBigCheese · 15 Jun 2011 at 01:41

Unfortunately we won't get to see a lot of it (if we can see anything through cloud) but it'll be worth a look!

Some more info at the Guardian

TheBigCheese · 15 Jun 2011 at 11:21

Some extra information for anyone interested...

This is the latest forecast map for tonight at 22:00, doesn't look too bad for moon spotting.

If you aren't sure where it will rise (and it will be coming up quite late) use Stellarium, open source astronomy software that will show you exactly where and when it's coming.

Don't forget Google Sky which is available for phones and tablets, just remember to set it to night mode if you are using it in the dark otherwise you will ruin your night vision.

Embed · 15 Jun 2011 at 11:41

Cheers for the heads up, will try to have a look

Cosimo · 15 Jun 2011 at 11:59

I'll take a look tonight. Cheers

Tom0 · 15 Jun 2011 at 12:15

TheBigCheese said:
doesn't look too bad for moon spotting.

As long as you live in ROI maybe..

cork-spotters · 15 Jun 2011 at 12:23

Tom0 said:
As long as you live in ROI maybe..

Sorted so

pastymuncher · 15 Jun 2011 at 13:01

As usual when something worth watching happens in the sky, it's overcast and gloomy up here.

moon man · 15 Jun 2011 at 18:25

having a bbq and sky not looking too bad here on cornish coast , cloudy but nice blue band coming

Macro · 15 Jun 2011 at 19:27

http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ /nod

TheBigCheese · 15 Jun 2011 at 20:02

There's a live streaming view of the eclipse, see here.

TheBigCheese · 15 Jun 2011 at 20:06

Google in all their cleverness have put an update on their Google Doodle of the correct phase of the Moon...clever stuff!

SDK^ · 15 Jun 2011 at 20:28

A sequence of photo's I took during the last Lunar Eclipse in May 2007.

psd99 · 15 Jun 2011 at 20:35

wow nice pics

I love this sort of thing

looking forward to it the clouds seem to be lifting ever so slightly.

Flare · 15 Jun 2011 at 20:56

Live footage of the lunar eclipse with commentary, currently talking about Buzz Aldrin:
http://eclipse.slooh.com/

Might be worth putting in OP?

*edit*
Live youtube feed:

Cosimo · 15 Jun 2011 at 20:57

TheBigCheese said:
Google in all their cleverness have put an update on their Google Doodle of the correct phase of the Moon...clever stuff!

In their cleverness you can't search from that page on a tablet running Honeycomb.

ins0mn1ac · 15 Jun 2011 at 21:13

Shame every inch of the viewable sky is cloud

has been for hours.

Flare · 15 Jun 2011 at 21:16

deleted said:
Shame every inch of the viewable sky is cloud has been for hours.

See my post, 3 posts up.

ins0mn1ac · 15 Jun 2011 at 21:20

Flare said:
See my post, 3 posts up.

I know but I'd much rather see it for myself. In the outside world!

zipp0r · 15 Jun 2011 at 21:20

can anyone see it? it said we should be able to at 9pm, i looked east, south east and south and dont see nuffin :\ ??

Strife212 · 15 Jun 2011 at 21:26

It's way too bright, can't see the moon at all? :/