Supermoon and lunar eclipse - 28 September 2015

[StrontiumDog]

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

4:47am


4:52

 

[Arthur]

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.

 

[SlowInternet]

Too much cloud cover. Couldn't see anything.

 

[oldhat]

Saw some of it, quite spectacular...

 

[Arthur]

Now the moon's wearing a bright white zucchetto.

 

[froot]

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]

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]

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

 

[atomcrusher]

Taken this a.m. from home .. the full eclipse was already over

 

[Hamster]

 

[Hamster]

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

Didn't even know this was happening and I was awake

/fail

 

[Arthur]

Nice pic, atomcrusher. Love the cloud tonsure.

 

[StrontiumDog]

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

I had to my piddly Sony Xperia Z2.

 

[Hamster]

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

I had to my piddly Sony Xperia Z2.

Used my point n shoot Nikon s8200 and a celestron telescope.

 

[Ninja'd]

Couldn't see anything with the clouds.

 

[Indigogirl]

Some very funny "blood moon" photos here (from 2014)

For example...

 

[Slootvreter]

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


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

 

[kilos]

Small Nikon Coolpix L120 with 21x zoom with no tripod
4am

3.40am

 

[Ninja'd]

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

I was drunkenly walking home when my alarm for the moon went off. Sadly it was too cloudy.