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Total lunar eclipse, July 27th 2018
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23-07-2018 2:14pm#1Next Friday, July 27th, we get a total lunar eclipse visible from Ireland. The maximum eclipse depth is reached just before moonrise on the east coast. (Moonrise is about 10 to 15 minutes later on the west coast). Loads more info about timings etc. here -- for information specific to your location click the link near the top of the page that says "Is this Total Lunar Eclipse visible in <your-location>?".
Just bear in mind that you want to be somewhere with a view down to the south eastern horizon, as the eclipse is total as the moon rises. In Dublin, that's at 9.22pm, with the total eclipse continuing for another 50 minutes before the earth's shadow starts to move off. Because it's low to the horizon, you'll also get the moon illusion, which makes the moon look weirdly huge. To see the horizon you either want to be on an elevation (which doesn't have to be very high up as long as the view is unobstructed) or be on the south or east coast.
In south Dublin, one of my favourite spots for watching moon rises is Dun Laoghaire pier. You don't have to walk very far, and you can do it with a Teddy's ice-cream in your paw. For this particular moonrise, the direction is 123 degrees, measured clockwise from north. Standing at the bandstand on the east pier gives you an unobstructed view of the moon rising out of the sea just beyond the 40-foot in Dalkey. And as a bonus from this location you will also be able to see the pretty sunset in the northwest, five minutes after moonrise. Here's hoping for clear skies!
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What a beauty...4 major stellar objects in same field of view,one week of spinning around covered in few seconds! But,what is time !??
As well,hope the weather,the sky and the clouds are with us...
is a gif,so please wait for the Moon to impress you...
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Darn this country! There is skanky weather due on Friday, with just a hint of a possibility that eclipse time on the east coast might fall in a clearance between two bands of rain. Still keeping my hopes up. I did a reccy down Dun Laoghaire pier tonight just about Mars rise time, and the viewing was awesome. (P.S. The bandstand is fenced off for renovations).
Ok, my vintage iPhone is somewhat less than awesome, so here's what I could actually see:
Four out of five of the classical planets all above the horizon simultaneously! It was the first time I got a sense of the ecliptic (the plane of the solar system orbits) as a real line in the sky. On Friday the eclipsed moon will have moved over left to above where Mars is.
If only tonight was Friday!
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Not looking good for the East/North/North-west on the HIRLAM (high res model) now that it's come into range, hopefully things will change a bit as cloud is notoriously difficult to track but it's not looking great
It's European time so add an hour, I'll update in two runs time (a bit after 5pm)
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I live in Bettystown so would it be visible from the beach? ... What’s the juiciest time to go down and the best bits to see?
Bettystown beach is an excellent location for viewing (weather permitting, which it might well not). Just look south along the beach toward Skerries, then cast your eye out to sea a little -- that's where the moon will rise. The juicy times are --
21:22 Moon rises in south east, already totally eclipsed (moon #7 below)
21:28 Sunset
22:09 Mars rises right below the moon (not properly visible until maybe half hour later). Other planets as per my pic earlier).
22:13 Total eclipse ends (moon #8)
23:05 International Space Station travels across the sky from west to east in six minutes
23:07 ISS passes within a quarter of a degree of Arcturus, the brightest star in the sky. The ISS is 40 times brighter than the star.
23:11 ISS disappears in the east.
23:19 Partial eclipse ends (moon #11)
00:29 Penumbral eclipse ends (moon #12)
If you just want the highlights, go out at 10.00 in time to see the end of total eclipse. See Venus, Jupiter and Saturn and see if you can spot Mars rising. And if you last a full hour you'll see a very nice space station flyover.0 -
Yeah, as I feared the mini-clearance I saw between rain bands on yesterday's forecast is a) smaller and b) moving through more slowly. P.S. don't we subtract an hour to go from CET to IST? Doesn't help the picture thoughNot looking good for the East/North/North-west on the HIRLAM (high res model) now that it's come into range, hopefully things will change a bit as cloud is notoriously difficult to track but it's not looking great 0 -
Four out of five of the classical planets all above the horizon simultaneously! It was the first time I got a sense of the ecliptic (the plane of the solar system orbits) as a real line in the sky.
I saw that too on Monday evening (in SW Kerry) it was stunning - I've been star/planet watching for almost 50 years and can't remember ever having seen such a great display! (I managed to spot Mercury in the evening sky last year - for the first time ever too! Happy days - or nights!)
Hopefully, Friday evening will deliver clear skies down here in the deep SW.0 -
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Yeah, as I feared the mini-clearance I saw between rain bands on yesterday's forecast is a) smaller and b) moving through more slowly. P.S. don't we subtract an hour to go from CET to IST? Doesn't help the picture though
Sorry ps200306 I meant add an hour to the time in the upper left corner of the chart gif, as it's from France. Was too early to have my head on right
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Well it's not looking good at all with the latest update, seems as if nearly all the country will be under cloud and some rain for the eclipse. Hopefully the charts will change closer to the time and we'll have some breakage but when and where are anyone's guess.
I've copied the link to the HIRLAM below in case anyone wants to check the updates, they usually roll out about 5 hours after the time indicated just below the picture, the colour on the left (beside the hour) will tell you which run it's on.
Best of luck for catching a glimpse...
http://www.meteociel.fr/modeles/hirlam.php?ech=1&mode=24&map=4300 -
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TheRiverman wrote: »Total cloud eclipse here in West Offaly
Same here in Laois.
Anyone that gets to see it , enjoy 0 -
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As Hindu temples closed earlier today (to prevent any negative energy) ascending from this blood moon, wondering should I close over the attic window?
In the (King James) version of the Bible, the Moon turning into blood is mention in the Book of Acts 2:20. The passage reads:“And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the Earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
“The Sun shall be turned into darkness, and the Moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:
Also (Book of Revelations, NT) reads:“And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
Either way might close it, in case of pending armageddon, and also the fact that the sky may well open with wet stuff from 21:30.
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