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Lunar eclipse: wikki"A lunar eclipse occurs whenever the Moon passes through some portion of the Earth's shadow. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, the Moon is always full during a lunar eclipse. The type and length of an eclipse depend upon the Moon's location relative to its orbital nodes. The most recent total lunar eclipse was on 28 August 2007 where the sun, earth and moon were in total alignment. The initial stage started at 07:52 UTC, while the total eclipse began at 09:52 UTC turning it bronze, with reddish to blood red at its peak. Eastern Australia and New Zealand were in the perfect zone to view the total lunar eclipse or "blood moon".
well, they say we were in the right place for the recent lunar eclipse, but boy was it cloudy and tough to see. i was only able to capture it sporadically, so what you see is the best of what i got. compilation of all of them put together in photoshop, not much editing at all. hope you enjoy
because the next one won't be for a few years now!
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DAm you! about 15 mins before it started it completely clouded over here and there was noting to see.
Next time... in 4 years....
At least I got shots of the mercury transit.
Beautiful work BTW
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It was mercury passing in front of the sun (well between the earth and the sun) which doesn't happen all that often, both the earth and mercury need to be in the right position and it daytime locally to be able to see it. The next one is 2032.
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The dot on the upper left is Mercury, the other one is a sun spot several dozen times the size of the earth...... gives life a little perspective....
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hahahaha, the clouds were a pain hey. . even a couple on there have some cloud over them, but i didn't really want to change them at all, so the moons themselves are raw images. next time indeed.. hopefully there'll be no clouds then!!!!!!
mercury transit???
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I watched the lunar eclipse 
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they are amazing when you think about it hey.. thanks so much for the very kind words
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This is amazing Cath, I so love it. What an amazing job 
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thanks so much hun, it was so amazing to stand there and watch, i just left the camera on the tripod set and ready and just pressed the button every 10 minutes or so.. i'm pretty happy with what i got, but next time i hope there's no clouds!! 
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lovely cath - such a great submission. love it!
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thanks so much dale.. sorry you didn't get to see much from perth 
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o wow! i remember seeing a solar eclipes once.
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they're pretty amazing i have to say.. and while i was out the front yard taking all these photos, cars and people kept going by and i'm like "stop, don't you see the moon!"
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I was driving back from my Tae kwon do lesson once and I saw a lunar eclipse. the mood was sooooooo orange. It as so alien. solar and lunar eclipses are so amazing!
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Great catch of all the phases and very clean and well presented!
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thanks so much jay, took a bit to put together from all my shots, and to pick out what went where and what size (the original is over 4000 pixels wide i think), but it was almost as fun to do as it was to watch the original event
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Yes, my wife and I got up at 4:00 in the morning to watch it from here. Unfortunately I don't have a digital camera that will take shots like that and my 35mm SLR was at my parents house. It was fun to watch though. Is that the first lunar eclipse you've seen?
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i think it's the second, but i didn't have my DSLR when i saw a few years ago, so i just watched it (without much enthusiasm i might add). i guess the time of night for me was lucky and having my camera now, excitement kicked in, and the rest you see!
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Cool deal. Any chance you'll make it a print?
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i've just loaded the print up now, but i'm not sure how it will go at the largest size viewed up close. because of the cloud cover, there are 2 phases i'm not so happy with, which is why i didn't enable the print first off..
anyway, it's there if you'd like it 
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That's awesome! I remember I tried to take pictures of a lunar eclipse we had 'round here a couple years back but all I had was my little dinky camera at the time and it just looked like a dot.
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hehe.. they can be tricky things at the best of times, and clouds and cameras just make it painful sometimes 
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Beautiful. And yeah, I can agree on the bad cloud cover. Where I lived, I got to see the start of it, until it disappeared 10 mins before it was fully eclipsed. Didn't get to see the red or anything. XD
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clouds are bad! funny thing though, even through the clouds i could get some half decent long exposure shots, so it was still giving off enough light for the camera, just not the naked eye.. but the down side is the motion blue from the clouds which is why these shots aren't as clear as they could have been.. but anyway, it was fun to try
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lol, well you should have seen my pictures. A little white dot in the sky with no detail at all. I tried every way to counter that, so I've decided the default lens sucks.
Was in HN yesterday though and got to take a look at a tele lens. Very impressive. Might even fix the above problem.
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I like it, it seems a little non traditional in the path. The great thing is they're totally different then my pics since I was in a different location.
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thanks... yea, between the eclipse happen so close to sunrise and me being half asleep im surprised they weren't all of the black sky. Next time hopefully it will be at a more convent hour on the east coast.
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hehe, thanks jeff
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*whispers* I nominated it for a DD 
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that's a huge compliement, thanks so much
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Yeah, a little bit ... but the trees at Brennan Park were blocking the early stages.
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real nice work, I like how this has been put together. one of the nicest lunar eclipse sets around that I've come across.
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thanks kylie, i'm glad you like it that much
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thanks hun! it was certainly great to see, so you better keep an eye out for the next tone
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*nods* well if it werent at 3:30am and then having work at 6 I would have stayed up.. but they would have fired me ..lol .. next time for sure!
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hahahaha... surely you have sick leave
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LOL yes .. but that day just happened to be a mandatory day ..but I will schedule it in next time *chuckles*
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you have mandatory days? but what if you're dying? LOL
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lol .. as long as I dont miss those days my life will be spared.. other wise they will kill me.. I am a manager
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rofl.. even managers are allowed to take a day off now and then
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LOL!... yah .. I suppose if I HAD to they would let me.. but I am the only one that knows how to oppurate the computer... so they think things will blow up !
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and they might blow up, but they'd live
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