Total Lunar Eclipse

ThunderCat

Early hours this Monday morning - Jan 21st 2019. Don't forget.

rolion

Thanks...I'll get the blower out in the garden to scare the clouds...

Until then... "Irish stargazers will be able to view a rare 'super wolf blood moon' on Monday"

H E R E

Oscar Bravo

Weather looking nice and clear

"It will turn very cold on Sunday night under clear skies and just light variable breezes. Lowest temperatures will fall to between zero and minus 4 degrees with a widespread sharp frost."

PauloMN

Any idea where in the sky the moon will be, high in the sky or lower down, and what direction?

muskyj

PauloMN wrote: »

Any idea where in the sky the moon will be, high in the sky or lower down, and what direction?

The moon will be high enough in the sky when the eclipse starts. it will be low in the west at the end of the eclipse.

Most of the weather sites I checked are showing a band of thick cloud covering a lot of Ireland during the eclipse. :mad:

PauloMN

muskyj wrote: »

The moon will be high enough in the sky when the eclipse starts. it will be low in the west at the end of the eclipse.

Most of the weather sites I checked are showing a band of thick cloud covering a lot of Ireland during the eclipse. :mad:

Checked Met.ie for where I am, "partly cloudy" for most of it, so might be lucky. Better wrap up though, -1C forecast!

ThunderCat

On my phone I have the weather app Dark Sky which I find particularly good. It even gives a percentage of cloud cover for each hour. Unfortunately for me its 51 percent cloud cover at 2am rising to 83 percent cloud cover by 6am for where I am.

Wailin

Looks like weather is not playing ball tonight lads

Cloud covering most of the country late on. Lovely and clear now though :mad:

ThunderCat

Wailin wrote:

Looks like weather is not playing ball tonight lads

Wailin wrote:

Cloud covering most of the country late on. Lovely and clear now though

Hoping my weather app is right as it's downgrading the cloud cover as it's getting closer. Now only 28% cloud cover at 3am so here's hoping.

PauloMN

Cold and dry tonight, with clear intervals. Lows of minus 2 to plus 1 degrees Celsius with a widespread sharp frost forming and the risk of icy patches. Light variable breezes.

Leinster forecast from ME, I'll take that. Fortunately it's a fairly long event!

up for anything

What time does it begin at in Ireland?

coylemj

up for anything wrote: »

What time does it begin at in Ireland?

Its not like a solar eclipse, where the timing is dependant on your location.

All times UTC/GMT morning of January 21st .....

Start of pemumbral stage: 02:34
Moon enters umbra (start of partial phase): 03:33
Moon fully eclipsed (all of the Moon inside Earth's umbral shadow): 04:40
Moons begins to exit umbra (end of total phase) 05:43
Moon exits umbra: 06:51
End of penumbral stage: 07:49

The penumbral stages are of no significance, the eclipse effectively lasts from 3:33 to 06:51 with the moon totally eclipsed from 04:40 to 05:43

Pat Dunne

muskyj wrote: »

Most of the weather sites I checked are showing a band of thick cloud covering a lot of Ireland during the eclipse. :mad:

No surprise, that the weather won't play ball.

Have now decided to sell my scope Celestron CPC9.25 and a set of 2" Eyepieces now for sale. PM for photos and details.

drunkmonkey

If you were to get out of bed when's it worth it...still a perfectly clear night out there.
I expect junior to get into bed around 5 and kick me in the kidneys, might drag him out to see it if he does.

muskyj

cloudy here in Galway now! :mad:

mcrtchly

High clouds here in Letterkenny. Moon visible but hazy. Sat24.com shows thickening cloud from west on thermal satellite image. Doesn’t look too good for the west coast

Steve

I am going to try a timelapse vid of this, I'll post if it works, or if it doesn't I'll hide in shame.. ipad balanced between the window sill and a candle at the mo...

The Oort Cloud

This is the moon before eclipse. As you can see, it's misty. It could be better but not too bad, yet.

Really getting cloudy now from the west, hopefully just a small bunch of clouds passing by.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZMw7BSSyZ9BIWk6zVvna4jv4R2lsjP0T/view?usp=sharing

muskyj

you can make out that the moon is partially eclipsed through the clouds in Galway but can't see any detail to be able to appreciate it? anyone on the east of the country getting good views?

Yakult

Can see the eclipse nearly covering the moon, but very hazy and not much clarity.

Signore Fancy Pants

In Dublin here.

The eclipse is at about 3/4 now, clearish with no real cloud cover. I tried taking a photo but its brutal.

I also saw a fox....end transmission.

Sam Quentin

So clear right now, I'm witnessing an eclipse at least..
Phone cameras are sheeeet(just realised)and don't do what I'm seeing justice..

PrairieDawn

I was watching and then it disappeared... behind a cloud.

Anyone know if theres a stream online etc?

Yakult

Live stream here.
https://youtu.be/5RzNWf_p620
And
https://youtu.be/Cka9HcT6ETk

Pretzill

Just been up and could see it out the window - I think coming out of eclipse - either way halfway through - Sligo

PauloMN

A few I've captured so far, first go at photographing a lunar eclipse and it's harder than I expected!

https://ibb.co/8BdxPPg
https://ibb.co/GJ7N1yX
https://ibb.co/WF8zh5n
https://ibb.co/k6N6cNp
https://ibb.co/VgG9DhC
https://ibb.co/7rtK6by
https://ibb.co/xmTKGg3

ThunderCat

Typical. Weather was slightly hazy for the partial with fairly average detail available but as it got closer to totality the visibility just got worse and worse. Can't see it at all now. So technically I saw it but it's like an own goal, do you really want to claim it.

PauloMN

Time for a cuppa I think, can't see a thing here at the moment. Even the slightest mist is enough to kill any view of the fully eclipsed moon, as I'm not in the darkest area.

Johnnyhpipe

Lovely clear sky when i went to bed.. setthe alarm and now cant see a thing in Dublin!! ARGH!!

Reggie.

It's totally blocked out here with haze

The Oort Cloud

muskyj wrote: »

you can make out that the moon is partially eclipsed through the clouds in Galway but can't see any detail to be able to appreciate it? anyone on the east of the country getting good views?

I'm on the east coast and it's very cloudy and misty unfortunately. video link below. Always either cloud or mist here on the coast. My camera is not great though.



https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nf-tLheu31fauz4_KWIgKs4QOmz-6TUG/view?usp=sharing


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MjDivrv5Au9P0nk5E1n_454Ly5oA_2Vv/view?usp=sharing

PauloMN

The Oort Cloud wrote: »

I'm on the east coast and it's very cloudy and misty unfortunately. video link below. Always either cloud or mist here on the coast. My camera is not great though.



https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nf-tLheu31fauz4_KWIgKs4QOmz-6TUG/view?usp=sharing


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MjDivrv5Au9P0nk5E1n_454Ly5oA_2Vv/view?usp=sharing

Great videos!

Ghetofarmulous

Not much to see in Kilbeggan. Haze is making visibility poor. Frosty night I had hoped it would drive moisture from air. But I saw a fox

judeboy101

If the sun went nova, I guarantee you wouldn't see it in Ireland. Feck ya weather.

bassy

Same here in kilkenny with haze mist.

The Oort Cloud

These one's were just as it was happening... both colour filters.



https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UTkbu2FpGoh6GOyRpQ5o8ZcO0II2g4AN/view?usp=sharing


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XEpmrJB73u-ZDZ9t9dOmZht_vsrXogqD/view?usp=sharing

MacGyver007

Got a decent view in Galway about 10-15 minutes ago, but no more than that. The western sky is just too hazy! :mad:

PauloMN

Back outside now, should be coming out of it shortly.

ZX7R

some high cloud \ haze ,but saw the eclipse coud not make out the redness.
in maynoothh kildare.

seemed to happen earlier than i expected time wise.

Ghetofarmulous

Good view coming out. Hazy but still nice. Got a few pics with the iPhone through my good set of binoculars. I have to say the pics are still awful

PauloMN

A few of on the way out... bit hazy and cloudy at times which was a shame. Really couldn't see the red hue at all due to the haze at full eclipse. Worth getting up for all the same!

https://ibb.co/kJwdHYs
https://ibb.co/MkxQWpg
https://ibb.co/MkjMhyv
https://ibb.co/QKZ0Nqj
https://ibb.co/QjYYWJR
https://ibb.co/sQTZHtb
https://ibb.co/CnJfPmm

PauloMN

Went through all my shots from earlier, thought I hadn't got one with the "blood" in it, but thankfully I just about did:

bryangiggsy

Saw a pretty amazing sight at 645am for 15 mins while out for an early morning run with my running partner. We saw a a perfectly symmetrical line running through the top half of the moon and into the sky. it lasted about 15 mins while we headed west. If i could have a guess it was like looking at the shadow of the outline of the earth (however that prob impossible) Louth weather on Facebook has commented it was a 22 degree halo but did not look like any of the halo images i have googled on line. How and ever it was pretty spectacular and something you dont see everyday.

rolion

Nice one...beautiful look before midnight,crips bright,back of the house looked like in a bad autumn day light.

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However,after 5am,clouds and haze and just not enough willing to stay out in the chilli cold.

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Thaks to all that posted and stay out in the night...
Be good...a good person is a happy person.

ZeRoY

Sadly lost focus between shots and was impossible to get it back due to haze and equipment used (Skywatcher ST80 + Canon 1100D on Tripod)

Steve

Steve wrote: »

I am going to try a timelapse vid of this, I'll post if it works, or if it doesn't I'll hide in shame.. ipad balanced between the window sill and a candle at the mo...

I shall retreat in shame... it failed miserably.

After I set it, it refocused on the window glass so all I got was a blur...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puj8W8USQqE

I did set an alarm and actually see it tho, was beautiful.

ScrubsfanChris

Taken from earlier in the night. Couldn't stay up for the eclipse itself.



Larger: https://i.imgur.com/pRpWRC5.jpg

jfSDAS

Saw a pretty amazing sight at 645am for 15 mins while out for an early morning run with my running partner. We saw a a perfectly symmetrical line running through the top half of the moon and into the sky. it lasted about 15 mins while we headed west. If i could have a guess it was like looking at the shadow of the outline of the earth (however that prob impossible) Louth weather on Facebook has commented it was a 22 degree halo but did not look like any of the halo images i have googled on line. How and ever it was pretty spectacular and something you dont see everyday.

I wonder was it Earth's shadow you did genuinely see? It could have been an example of the Moon immersed in our shadow projected onto Earth's upper atmosphere, like what you get when the Belt of Venus is visible. Examples are https://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz584.htm and https://www.atoptics.co.uk/fza60.htm while there's another explanation plus images at https://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/earshad.htm and https://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/eshad1.htm

bryangiggsy

jfSDAS wrote: »

I wonder was it Earth's shadow you did genuinely see? It could have been an example of the Moon immersed in our shadow projected onto Earth's upper atmosphere, like what you get when the Belt of Venus is visible. Examples are https://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz584.htm and https://www.atoptics.co.uk/fza60.htm while there's another explanation plus images at https://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/earshad.htm and https://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/eshad1.htm

You could be right . Although the images above not the same as it was completely dark . Time was 640... lasted till about 655. Moon was very bright as eclipse was just over and lower . Pity no photos . But someone else had to have seen it

ThunderCat

jfSDAS wrote: »

I wonder was it Earth's shadow you did genuinely see? It could have been an example of the Moon immersed in our shadow projected onto Earth's upper atmosphere, like what you get when the Belt of Venus is visible. Examples are https://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz584.htm and https://www.atoptics.co.uk/fza60.htm while there's another explanation plus images at https://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/earshad.htm and https://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/eshad1.htm

The time given ties in exactly with the Earths Penumbra moving down across the face of the moon from our perspective.
www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2019-january-21 shows this very well