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Jeff's
March 3rd, 2007 Lunar Eclipse Page
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Hi, my name is Jeff, and welcome to my "Lunar Eclipse" Page!
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The
Clear Sky Clock for
Lombard was calling for mostly cloudy skies early, then clearing around
midnight so we decided to give it a try anyway. We arrived at the site
around 5:30 PM and quickly set up. Earlier the clouds looked like they
were starting to break up a little, but upon arriving, the skies overhead were mostly cloudy with
only a few small patches of clear sky above. We were there for almost an
hour and the skies had not cleared at all, so somewhere around 6:30 we decided
to pack up and leave. As we were packing up, Doug noticed what looked
like a piece of the Moon pop out from behind the clouds. We waited a few
minutes and the Moon did indeed appear, although it was already out of the
total eclipse stage and in partial eclipse with only around 25% of the Moon
still in eclipse. I was able to get a couple of pictures of the
partially eclipsed Moon.
Here are some of my pictures of
Saturday night's partially eclipsed Moon. ENJOY!!
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The
3/3/07 Lunar Eclipse in Partial Stage at 6:55 PM |
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The pictures above were taken with a Sony Mavica MVC-CD1000 Digital Camera
held up to the 25mm eyepiece (28x) of a Meade 70mm refractor telescope. This
is called afocal coupling or afocal astrophotography.
For visual observing, I was using a
set of Celestron 15x70 Skymaster binoculars, a set of Meade 9x63 Roof-Prism
Astronomy binoculars, and the Meade 70mm refractor.
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