Eclipse photos are in !
Anybody see the eclipse? Share the experience. Leave a comment here.
If you missed it, the first pictures from last night's full lunar eclipse are already posted on the Web. One of them is a beautiful, blood-red image from Joe Webster, shot from Annapolis.
After a sunny day and a very promising, clear night at the start of the eclipse, high, thin clouds moved over the moon from where I stood north of Baltimore. Once the eclipse was total, the dimmed moon alternately vanished and reappeared through gaps in the clouds. We gave up around 10:45 p.m. But when I stuck my head out the door at 11:45, the moon hung nearly overhead - big, bright and rosey.
A few neighbors and dog walkers stopped by for a look through the telescope. Some seemed pretty impressed. A few were baffled. Science teachers have their work cut out for them.
Comments
I don't have a telescope nor a big telephoto lens, so this is the best picture I could get with my digital camera.
Small picture.
Also at: http://www.a-musing.com/images/Eclipse1.jpg if the HTML doesn't work.
I thought the most interesting thing, while the sky was full of altocumulus clouds (well, looked like them anyway), was that the horizon was VERY red, much moreso than it usually seems here NW of Baltimore. It did clear up a bunch later, tho.
Posted by: Highway | October 29, 2004 9:49 AM
The jpg file worked fine. Nice picture, Highway. I still haven't gotten my film to the developer. I hope I did as well. Our Sun photographers shot some pictures, too, but with the World Series wrapping up, there was no time, and no space in the paper to use them.
Posted by: Frank Roylance | October 29, 2004 11:25 AM