rakkity’s moon
Mike,
It was misty, but we could see the moon being eclipsed. The mists took away the color, so it looked grey to the eye, and even through binocs.In my picture from our front yard (attached) without any fiddling of the saturation of the digital data, the moon is clearly red . The moon is at one side of the shadow umbra, so it looks like a crescent. I couldn’t see the moon through my viewfinder, and had to guess at the centering, so I couldn’t zoom. What you see in the picture is what you get with a 4-sec exposure and no zoom near the time of maximum eclipse.
I’m sure there will be some glorious pix on the web later tonight.
–rakkity
From Madison
Comment by Syzygy — February 21, 2008 @ 1:39 pm
Very cool. You can even see Jennifer’s stars.
Comment by michael — February 21, 2008 @ 8:11 pm
From now on, we should all think of Saturn and Algieba as Jennifer’s stars.
Comment by rakkity — February 21, 2008 @ 9:14 pm
I’ll second that.
Comment by michael — February 21, 2008 @ 9:34 pm