If you're in the UK look out the window!

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The moon is so bright due to an ecplise happening! I'm not to sure what sort of ECLPZE it is, but LOOK AT IT!

It's due to go orange soon!
 
It's a Total Lunar Eclipse - the Moon will gradually darken until, at 10.43pm tonight, it'll go a bright coppery orange.
 
Omnis
yep. It turns red because the sunlight bounces off of Mars and back to earth and back to the moon.


:lol:
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Or, more accurately, because the Earth's atmosphere filters out all of the other wavelengths but red.
 
ultrabeat
My IQ just dropped by 10. I'm dangerously close to minus numbers now.
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Don't worry Ultrabeat, according to MachOne, I don't have an IQ. I so stupid that I even monkey does better. Not his exact words but close.
 
I've got my camera on a tripod sitting outside the front door, so I'll post some pics when it's happened.
 
Jondot
I've got my camera on a tripod sitting outside the front door, so I'll post some pics when it's happened.
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My camera is on its tripod sitting in the kitchen. I've taken a few from the back garden of the moon being eaten, but I don't think they've come out as well as I would hope. I'll take some more once its gone.
 
No - the Kodak is pants with direct bright light. Might be fine at totality though.
 
Famine
Might be fine at totality though.
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Yep, that's what I'm waiting on now. Just a sliver left.

I've taken some at "night landscape" setting and also some at the "fireworks" setting. I really must learn how to use it properly...
 
daan
Yep, that's what I'm waiting on now. Just a sliver left.

I've taken some at "night landscape" setting and also some at the "fireworks" setting. I really must learn how to use it properly...
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Could go into the PASM menu and drop the exposure.
 
So am I right in thinking that the Sun, Earth and Moon are in alignment, and so no light from the sun is shining onto the moon?
 
daan
My camera is on its tripod sitting in the kitchen. I've taken a few from the back garden of the moon being eaten, but I don't think they've come out as well as I would hope. I'll take some more once its gone.
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Yeah. This is the one time 10x optical zoom just isn't enough.
 
ultrabeat
So am I right in thinking that the Sun, Earth and Moon are in alignment, and so no light from the sun is shining onto the moon?
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Yes, the earth is between the sun and the moon, so no light from the sun is hitting the moon.
 
daan
Yes, the earth is between the sun and the moon, so no light from the sun is hitting the moon.
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Some sort of does - that's why it's red and not black. The Sun's light is filtered and refracted by the Earth's atmosphere. During the start and finish of the eclipse it's not particularly evident, because the brightness of the rest Moon outshines the dull red glow, but now, and for the next hour or so, it'll be bathed in red light filtered by us.
 
Famine
Some sort of does - that's why it's red and not black. The Sun's light is filtered and refracted by the Earth's atmosphere. During the start and finish of the eclipse it's not particularly evident, because the brightness of the rest Moon outshines the dull red glow, but now, and for the next hour or so, it'll be bathed in red light filtered by us.
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Yeah, I know that, but basically it's because...
daan
the earth is between the sun and the moon, so no light from the sun is hitting the moon.
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It looks more pink at the moment, to be honest. Maybe I missed some of it. Oh well, I've been videoing it so I'll examine the footage later.
 
Jondot
Yeah. This is the one time 10x optical zoom just isn't enough.
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agreed but you gotta love 19mb file formats :D
done with no tripod :scared:
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you can see the outline on this one :)
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Bugger.

I could do with the camera attachment for my telescope.



And my telescope to be here.
 

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