Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight 2230-0000

Mitchy260 · 2007-03-03 18:01:51

it a lunar echo :D or a lunar SIAL:D

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03 March 2007, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by sarasquares

it a lunar echo

or a lunar SIAL

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03 March 2007, 11:18 PM

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Just a faint orange ball now ........ got some really good pics on a slow exposure.
Yve

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04 March 2007, 01:22 AM

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we got a brown moon.. *smirk* - I tried to provide some edumecational instruction as we moved from one pub to another but was met with ignorance and umm... something else.

*hic*

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04 March 2007, 01:34 AM

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A couple of the shots I took of the event...

Gone! (eclipsed it had a nice warm colour to it)

Coming back...

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04 March 2007, 02:07 AM

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Excellent pics!!!!!

I was watching it and wondering which lens i'd need for a decent photo (probably a stupidly expensive one!). What did you use?

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04 March 2007, 10:20 AM

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04 March 2007, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by unclebuck

Almost total now.

Imagine back in stoneage times - when this happened and they didn't know why. The 'high priests' must have sh*t themselves lol

I seem to remember that Rider Haggard's heroes always used to use an eclipse and their prophecy that they were gods who could control it as an excuse to stop the natives boiling them up for their tea!

Les