Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 01:12 BST until 06:22 BST

Cosimo · 27 Sep 2015 at 22:07

At 21:00 from the garden:

Fuzz · 27 Sep 2015 at 22:09

Twirlywoos said:
Well that's kind of boring if it changed colour that I would stay up for. The video says it will have a red tint though. :S

It does, that's the point!

Bickaxe · 27 Sep 2015 at 23:03

Will be heading out into the Irish Sea at peak time. No cloud over south Wales at the moment so should be good for a few pics.

Blinkz · 27 Sep 2015 at 23:22

I'll be staying up to check it out but sadly the only lens I have for my DSLR is a 17-55

Twirlywoos · 27 Sep 2015 at 23:59

I tried taking a picture but I need a super duper telescopic lens to do it justice, looks like a little dot when I took a pic lol. Atleast the sky is clear, it is very bright today though.

ChroniC · 28 Sep 2015 at 00:11

Very bright white atm, is this going to be a very sudden change about 1 as I am ot staying up till 3, plus it seems a lot higher in the sky than I expected.
Doesn't look 14% bigger

Elixir · 28 Sep 2015 at 00:29

Elixir said:
Clear skies in Rio, should start at just after 9pm local time.

And in true Rio form the weather has completely changed in the last 20 minutes, complete cloud cover all of a sudden.

NooBish AbbZ · 28 Sep 2015 at 00:30

'm up because I can't sleep.May aswell stay up and have a look

djshauny1 · 28 Sep 2015 at 00:56

What time does it start?

nvm lol

BattFink · 28 Sep 2015 at 00:59

Here's my first attempt at the taking a photo of the moon

Shot using a Nikon D810

400mm
1/200 sec @ f/4, -0.3 exp
ISO-64

Really need to learn some PP skills though

Captain · 28 Sep 2015 at 01:05

That's fantastic!!

2StepSteve · 28 Sep 2015 at 01:17

I'm ready!

On a side note, I'm not very happy with my Sigma 150-600 C at 600mm. It's sharpness at 600mm is worse than my 70-300L at 600mm crop equivalent!

Rroff · 28 Sep 2015 at 01:19

Excellent night (at the moment) here for looking at the skies - clear and crisp, shame I can't get a proper telescope or something out without waking people :S

BattFink · 28 Sep 2015 at 01:23

Kind of regretting selling my Sigmonster now (300mm-800mm)

Sky is clear, just wish they'd turn the street lamps off down the across the road

FoxEye · 28 Sep 2015 at 01:30

This thread came just at the right time; I'd totally forgotten what the moon looked like.

smr · 28 Sep 2015 at 01:44

Sat in the back garden with two blankets, 400mm prime, hot chocolate and ecig. The things we do eh! Got the school run tomorrow too! When does the eclipse have any actual effect? Moons still looking its usual colours.

cainer · 28 Sep 2015 at 01:46

smr said:
Sat in the back garden with two blankets, 400mm prime, hot chocolate and ecig. The things we do eh! Got the school run tomorrow too! When does the eclipse have any actual effect? Moons still looking its usual colours.

3am - 5am, peaking at 3.36am*
*shows 2.36 on this pic but its GMT

smr · 28 Sep 2015 at 01:52

cainer said:
2am - 4am, peaking at 2.47am*
*said 2.47am in the write up but shows 2.36 on this pic

Brilliant. Thanks .. not too long to wait then.

Orionaut · 28 Sep 2015 at 01:59

FoxEye said:
This thread came just at the right time; I'd totally forgotten what the moon looked like.

I am having to struggle to remember!

I had to have cataract/glaucoma surgery earlier in the year and now (though the surgery has been very successful as far as it goes and I do not regret it) I seem to have lost my night vision.

All I can see now is just a bright blob in the sky!

(I used to be able to see really faint stars and mara details that nobody else could see, now I cant even see the bloody Moon any more!

)

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dunker · 28 Sep 2015 at 02:00

definetly getting darker top-left, still very bright though.