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Another Eight Inches

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I queued up behind a phalanx of snow plows today hogging all three lanes of route 2. What is up with that? They can’t space themselves far enough apart so I, and like minded souls, can scoot by them? In spite of the snow, the road was reasonably safe at, say, 40, but the rolling road block slowed me and all those cars behind me to about fifteen miles an hour.

Not Tired Of Moon Pix Yet?

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Michael,

Some of us are still not jaded by good lunar eclipse pictures–see this one.

Admittedly, it’s not a “purist’s” (no digital fiddling) picture, but few of them are these days. It’s a combination of a telescopic view (showing Jennifer’s stars) and a filtered camera shot.

–rakkity

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I’m tacking this photo onto rak’s post. I thought it was one of my better shots, but it was over exposed compared to what we were all looking at so I didn’t post it. Taken at about 10 PM.

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

rakkity’s moon

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eclipse1half.jpg

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