Supermoon and lunar eclipse - 28 September 2015

StrontiumDog

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Took a couple of photos too, this is not what I'm seeing with the naked eye though.

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Arthur

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Thanks.

All I have is binocs and a phone on the roof of the stoep. It was overcast here, but suddenly clear about 25 mins ago.
 

froot

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I took a few photos at 5.00am... sadly my viewfinder gave me the finger (it's happy with an evening moonshot or a daylight shot, but a 5am shot obviously not), so I had to guess when it was perfectly in focus.

It came out acceptable, but nowhere near a supermoon shot for me. Will try upload my photos tonight.

I actually forgot that the moon sits on the opposite side in the mornings... I had like this little v-slot between my neighbour's roof and a tree to peek at it.
 

Necropolis

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Saw a bit of it @ around 5 this morning.

Didn't look all that special - suspect I would be singing a different tune if I had watched the entire event. But my desire not to fall asleep at my desk today overtook my desire to watch the eclipse.
 

Hamster

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Took some pics through the telescope. Not the highest quality though unfortunately.

I tried with the phone again as well. I got pretty good (for a phone) pics with my Nokia last time but this new one wasn't all that great :(
 

StrontiumDog

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Indeed, what camera did you guys use and at what time? @ Atomcrusher and Hamster.

I had to my piddly Sony Xperia Z2.
 

Slootvreter

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Looks awesome. Now, as expected, I read some crackpot on Facebook posted that this coincides with the feast of tabernacles (or some schit like that) and how wonderful is this and we can expect a lost of change. Like, it's not as if these feasts were not planned around certain occurrences, not the other way around :rolleyes:


Anyway, I was asleep and forgot to wake up. Perhaps I was still drunk. :eek:
 

kilos

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Small Nikon Coolpix L120 with 21x zoom with no tripod
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