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rakkity’s moon

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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

4 Comments
Syzygy
michael
michael

Very cool. You can even see Jennifer’s stars.

rakkity
rakkity

From now on, we should all think of Saturn and Algieba as Jennifer’s stars.

michael
michael

I’ll second that.

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