[sac-forum] Re: [AZ-Observing] Lunar Eclipse from Fountain Hills

My wife and I played it a little wimpy, set the alarm for 2:45 and watched it for 15 minutes as it entered totality.  Work schedules wouldn't have allowed for an all night session (like when I took off for the peak of the Perseid's) but it was beautiful to see.  I kept thinking how great it would have been to have been back up at Cherry Hill Rd out of the city lights.  Despite the city lights it was easy to make out the Pleiades and Mars over in the eastern sky though I guess I missed it when it was as big as the full moon, hehe.

Curiously too right around totality a little breeze kicked up.  Coincidence to be sure but a little spooky nonetheless.

Clear Skies,

Wayne

Spencer, Darrell wrote: 
So did I.  No pics though, just a memorable event. Great color at and
around totality.  Plus, some of the "winter" DSOs are up at that hour!
(A bonus)

Darrell Spencer (newbie to the forum, the local astronomy crowd and
proud owner of a new XT10i to complement my DS114 newt and 10x50 binocs)

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Subject: [AZ-Observing] Lunar Eclipse from Fountain Hills

Stayed up and watched the lunar eclipse from my front yard here in 
Fountain Hills.
Sky was clear all night, calm, temp about 90 F.
Nice colors seen with my Celestron Sky Master 25x100 binoculars, tripod 
mounted., Moon globe looked 3-D when it was fully eclipsed.  Made some 
crude sketches. I would probably have set up some cameras, maybe video, 
but I was trapped on jury duty yesterday, and have to go again today.

I also downloaded pix off the internet from the Mt. Wilson Solar 
Observatory Tower Cam every 5 min or so.  Caught most of the eclipse. 
Will try cropping and making a short AVI out of the JPEGs.

I wasted a lot of time trying to get the so-called "live web cast" from 
NASA to load and run.  No Go with any of the browsers or connections I 
have available.  First the page would not load at all, then the pictures

never updated.  "Goddard, we have a problem!!" Also, a disappointing 
so-called live web cast from the "Coca-Cola Space Center", which looked 
like they left the lens cap on... Pictures loaded, but were completely 
black!

Gene Lucas
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