[AZ-Observing] Re: Lunar Eclipse from New River and Fountain Hills

This eclipse did not seem particularly dark, as they go, to me.  Has to 
do mainly with the amount of upper atmosphere aerosols and volcanic 
dust, I think.  Also the geometry. Max color from FH was a pale salmon, 
with darker areas due to the mare. A lighter band seemed to move around 
the rim.  The globe of the Moon seemed almost three dimensional against 
the dark sky.  Several nearby stars were seen.

Very good animations on this site:
http://www.shadowandsubstance.com/

Gene Lucas
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Dan Heim wrote:

>Hey, looks like I'll be the first to post a shot here.  Got this about 10
>minutes into totality from my front deck in New River.  The bright star in
>the background is Sig Aqr (mag 4.9).  Shot with Canon EOS20D, 200 mm Zuiko
>telephoto, 3200 ISO, 2 seconds @ f16 or thereabouts ... hard to tell since
>the lens doesn't interface electronically with this camera (used an
>adapter).  See the image at:
>
>http://www.heimhenge.com/downloads/Aug28-eclipse.jpg
>
>Dan Heim
>President
>Desert Foothills Astronomy Club
>http://www.dfacaz.org
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