Lunar eclipse tonight

muckish

Remember the Lunar Eclipse tonight. Moon rise around 9.50pm with full eclipse at 10pm. Will be low on the Eastern horizon at this stage so we will probably get to see the later half of the eclipse. streamed live here
hopefully the weather will clear. Sky is patchy here in Donegal at the moment, might only get a partial view.

muckish

muckish wrote: »

Remember the Lunar Eclipse tonight. Moon rise around 9.50pm with full eclipse at 10pm. Will be low on the Eastern horizon at this stage so we will probably get to see the later half of the eclipse. streamed live here
hopefully the weather will clear. Sky is patchy here in Donegal at the moment, might only get a partial view.

Cheers for the link Muckish
very cloudy in my part of Dublin

M.T. Cranium

If you do go out for a look, make sure you look southeast -- the Moon at this time of year will follow the path of the December sun through the night sky.

Skies appear to be clearer in the west-central counties than most other places. Good luck.

heres another link, can switch between countries.

http://eclipse.slooh.com/

Oscar Bravo

Anyone got the ISS times handy for tonight?

Iancar29

THe link is good , but doesnt feel the same as to if we were actually looking at it outside.

Too cloudy here in dublin... glad i didnt get my hopes up.

nacho libre

Looking forlornly to south east but no sign of the moon. It's annoying considering there is a clear sky for it.

Oscar Bravo

Likewise in Castlebar,clear and no moon yet.

Shzm

Totally clear night here in Slovakia, can see it brilliantly :-)

Gipo3

Totally clear in Sligo, no moon. According to the paper the moon does not rise untill 22.34.

h57xiucj2z946q

Used Google Sky Map on the phone there, looks to be still around the horizon.

fizzycyst

The moon is clearly visable in Waterford, beautiful sight

Lumi

patchy cloud cover over Galway
but clear skies to the SE - no moon though, yet .....

Lumi

A beautiful pale gold silver of moon has just made an appearance in Galway

Moon and eclipse well visible over Kilkenny/Carlow. Lovely sight!

Oscar Bravo

The lovely sight has appeared in Castlebar now low in the SE sky.

NIALL D

too cloudy around tipp to see anything , where i am anyway !!!!

nacho libre

The moon has appeared. Unforunately the totality phase looks to be over, still an impressive site!

irish1967

Donegal Town 22.42. Looks amazing

irish1967

Now for the space station flyby at 23:43 starting in SW travelling to E. Visible for 5mins 42secs

siobhan.murphy

seen it outside tralee,not good enough to with camera to post and too far up the road to bring telescope!

up for anything

Damn, thought we had cloud cover but realised just now walking the dog that if I'd gone down to the end of the road I would have had perfect visibility. I just didn't realise how low down in the sky it was.

How will I recognise the space station in the sky? Will it be travelling at obvious speed and will it look like a star?

Oscar Bravo

You wont miss the space station,as you say just like a big star,it will catch your eye straight away.Coming from SW direction heading East.

The Mary Clarke

Mountcharles, Co. Donegal 22:27

snowstreams

Galway city at 22.45



Needed Google sky map to find it!

Pangea

Nice photo's, never looked out for the eclipse, didn't think the moon would be out that early, although we had heavy rain around an hour ago so probably wouldn't have seen it.
Nice big moon out now though.

Minister Boyce

Pangea wrote: »

Nice photo's, never looked out for the eclipse, didn't think the moon would be out that early, although we had heavy rain around an hour ago so probably wouldn't have seen it.
Nice big moon out now though.

Just back from a walk, missed the whole affair just the big bad bright moon staring down at me now, nice clear sky, mild night...and just for a second all is good in the world...obviously i then catch up on the latest headlines on google news when I come back and the 'good to be alive' moment fkuced right off:)

Pangea

Minister Boyce wrote: »

Just back from a walk, missed the whole affair just the big bad bright moon staring down at me now, nice clear sky, mild night...and just for a second all is good in the world...obviously i then catch up on the latest headlines on google news when I come back and the 'good to be alive' moment fkuced right off:)

Don't worry, don't we always hear "there wont be another eclipse like this for 6000 years" every year!! :pac::pac:
Well we live in hope. We will be better prepared next time around

Oscar Bravo

ISS just gone over (Castlebar)

Minister Boyce

Pangea wrote: »

Don't worry, don't we always hear "there wont be another eclipse like this for 6000 years" every year!! :pac::pac:
Well we live in hope. We will be better prepared next time around

Just making a cuppa and gonna head out the back to do me some ISS spotting, even though I haven't a clue what it is:D

up for anything

I saw the ISS travel across the sky. Strangely moving (in the emotional sense rather than the Oh God something is wrong with it sense). Will it be visible again tomorrow night?

redsteveireland

One patch of cloud in the sky and its in front of the moon. Typical.

mickger844posts

Picture i took tonight in Waterford City at around 10.30 http://twitpic.com/5c30q7

mikedone

Nice one. Too much cloud cover in my part of Donegal then and now

muckish

great viewing in Donegal tonight. The Gods were kind...
1st: Lunar eclipse at Beltany Stone Circle




2nd: ISS flyby


and finally Noctilucent Clouds

sambora

Wow ^ Your pictures are amazing! What camera do you use?

muckish

sambora wrote: »

Wow ^ Your pictures are amazing! What camera do you use?

Canon 400d with 17-40mm f4L and 70-200mm f4L lenses, tripod and remote shutter release.

And by the looks of the eclipse photos the sensor needs a good cleaning!

mickger844posts

muckish wrote: »

Canon 400d with 17-40mm f4L and 70-200mm f4L lenses, tripod and remote shutter release.

And by the looks of the eclipse photos the sensor needs a good cleaning!

How did you embed your images in the post ? I tried to insert my image from Twitpic but it only stays embed for a while then gives an error GIF instead of the image.

The Mary Clarke

@ Muckish, really great photos. I am just a novice(point and shoot) but might post a few more later anyway. The area looks really interesting too.:)

Lumi

mickger844posts wrote: »

How did you embed your images in the post ? I tried to insert my image from Twitpic but it only stays embed for a while then gives an error GIF instead of the image.

Twitpic is fine for uploading to Twitter but I tend to use Photobucket to store and upload my images, GIFs etc. It has a huge variety of editing functions as well so its worth giving it a try

lolie

up for anything wrote: »

I saw the ISS travel across the sky. Strangely moving (in the emotional sense rather than the Oh God something is wrong with it sense). Will it be visible again tomorrow night?

There's four visible passes tonight, weather permitting

Starts Ends

16 Jun, 22:38:24 SW 22:43:49 E
17 Jun, 00:13:23 WSW 00:19:25 E
17 Jun, 01:48:52 W 01:54:42 ESE
17 Jun, 03:25:03 WSW 03:28:37 S

Pangea

Interesting to see that it's pitch dark in the Waterford photos whereas in the Donegal photos there is still daylight, both taken at around the same time.

muckish

mickger844posts wrote: »

How did you embed your images in the post ? I tried to insert my image from Twitpic but it only stays embed for a while then gives an error GIF instead of the image.

I have a flickr account and they have a share facility where you can grab the URL for the image in question and insert that into your Boards.ie post using the insert image icon.

muckish

Useful tool for tracking satellite flybys here

http://spaceweather.com/flybys/country.php

Minister Boyce

muckish wrote: »

Canon 400d with 17-40mm f4L and 70-200mm f4L lenses, tripod and remote shutter release.

I know feck all about cameras but thats a fairly hi-tech hi-spec explaination right there...excellent photos by the way. Was a beautiful night to be out and about