Lunar Eclipse!!!

[redstone]

All time in Universal Time:
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...Sep07-Fig4.GIF

Singapore timing (+ 8 hours) :

Partial Lunar Eclipse
8 Spetember 006

Eclips begins at 0042 with penumbral contact
At 0205, umbral contact
0337, umbral contact ends
0500, eclipse ends

Greatest eclipse at 0251

[sumball]

Don't know how to read.

Care to tell me what time to what time is the best to shoot and is it midnight of 7 Sep, Friday (8 Sep morning)?

Quote: Eclips begins at 0042 with penumbral contact At 0205, umbral contact 0337, umbral contact ends 0500, eclipse ends Greatest eclipse at 0251

I assume these are Singapore time?

Sorry...

[Qazwer]

Originally Posted by sumball Don't know how to read. Care to tell me what time to what time is the best to shoot and is it midnight of 7 Sep, Friday (8 Sep morning)? I assume these are Singapore time? Sorry...

I think should be 0337hrs +0800hrs (offset for SIN time) is 1137hrs on 8 Sep.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[redstone]

Yup, I had +8hrs on all times to convert from UT to Singapore time.

1242 am of Sept 8.

Meaning whole day of Sept 7 over --- Midnight --- 1242am.

Penumbral contact means eclipse start, where the disk of the moon is lightly darkened.
Umbral contact, the disk of the moon will be in earth's shadow and will (hopefully) appear reddish.

sorry if this is very cheem.

[sumball]

So, I shall set up my tripod on Thursday night correct?

[cerebrus]

Anybody know a good place to shoot? I want to try it out.

[redstone]

Originally Posted by cerebrus Anybody know a good place to shoot? I want to try it out.

Anywhere you can see the moon

[sumball]

hahahaha

[redstone]

Hahah....

The moon would move across the night sky, just lke how the sun does.
Also the moon would only appear slightly off-colour due to the eclipse, and not fully blood red. The edge of the moon would be in earth's shadow and would not look round.

[Qazwer]

Originally Posted by redstone Hahah.... The moon would move across the night sky, just lke how the sun does. Also the moon would only appear slightly off-colour due to the eclipse, and not fully blood red. The edge of the moon would be in earth's shadow and would not look round.

Whoa... I thought it happen in the morning.

Thanks for sharing.

[redstone]

Originally Posted by Qazwer Whoa... I thought it happen in the morning. Thanks for sharing.

Morning yup, 0042hrs to 0500 hrs.

[sumball]

Why cant this happen 24 hours later... Friday still gotta work.

[cerebrus]

Originally Posted by redstone Anywhere you can see the moon

I have lots of tall buidlings around my area. Was wondering if a group of people from here want to go together. It is a Thursday though, people have to go work the next day.

[redstone]

I suppose any big field might do nicely if really your views are totally blocked.

[yanyewkay]

Originally Posted by sumball Why cant this happen 24 hours later... Friday still gotta work.

there's always MC

[ah.zeep]

Hi,

I think TS posted this on the "Events" forum too Anyway, intrigued by your (earlier) post, I checked out the NASA site, and I think the following credit line is missing from the post:

Eclipse map courtesy of Fred Espenak - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
For more information on solar and lunar eclipses, see Fred Espenak's Eclipse Home Page:

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html

By the way, Mr Espenak has a really nice page on Eclipse photography as well:
Lunar Eclipse Photography by Fred Espenak

Back to the topic, from the GIF file it would seem that there is only very little visible eclipsing though (since only the portion when the moon is in the Umbra would be visible as an eclipse)... wonder if my interpretation of the file is right?

[sumball]

Originally Posted by yanyewkay there's always MC

MC Hammer? You MC King! Wanna MC tom and go shoot butties?

[Tagore]

Originally Posted by redstone All time in Universal Time: http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...Sep07-Fig4.GIF Singapore timing (+ 8 hours) : Partial Lunar Eclipse 8 Spetember 006 Eclips begins at 0042 with penumbral contact At 0205, umbral contact 0337, umbral contact ends 0500, eclipse ends Greatest eclipse at 0251

thank you for posting. i c whether i can mount anything on my telescope

[redstone]

Any ideas on moon shooting?

[duhduh83]

i wonder wat sort of equipment i'll need to shoot a lunar eclipse?
a super-telephoto at 400mm?

also, i noticed that in some areas of singapore the moon at night was exceptionally big whereas if you travel to some other areas the moon is relatively smaller. I noticed this because one day I was travelling home and when I compared the moon from where I started out from to the destination, the moon was seen to be smaller. Is there a scientific explanation for this? If so, there could be some areas which are the best spots for taking pictures because the moon is seen to be relatively larger and hence we do not really need a really long telephoto. i guess. furthermore, the larger moon that i saw was much brighter and appears to be much closer to me. really nice....

cheers.