Last Week’s Lunar Eclipse Seen … From Another Planet
This is awesome: last week's lunar eclipse seen from the side, from a space probe out near Mercury.
Tag: Eclipse
Lunar eclipse coming up next week! Unfortunately it starts at 2:15 AM…
Lunar eclipse coming up next week! Unfortunately it starts at 2:15 AM Pacific Time, with totality from about 3:30-4:30. I don’t think I’m waking J up for this one. I’m not sure I’m waking *me* up for this one, either. Maybe I’ll set an alarm for 3:45, go outside for a few minutes, and go back to bed. And hope it’s not cloudy.
Eclipse Mosaic
Lunar #eclipse mosaic, starting around 11:00 and finishing around midnight Pacific time, just as totality set in. #moon #stargazing #notaphone
Four views of the moon over the course of tonight’s lunar eclipse, starting around 11pm and running until about midnight. I actually got some shots at the second stage without the phone line in the way, but I liked the way this looked.
Watching the eclipse with the kiddo.
Watching the eclipse with the kiddo.
Very cool sequence of photos showing the shadow of a solar eclipse moving across
https://epod.usra.edu/blog/2013/11/solar-eclipse-of-november-3-2013-observed-from-space.html
Very cool sequence of photos showing the shadow of a solar eclipse moving across the earth, as seen from orbit.
Hey, I can show J a lunar eclipse in April!
Hey, I can show J a lunar eclipse in April! The last one visible from this area happened when he was way too young to appreciate it.
Eerie: Cave Ghosts, Moon and Fog
On learning that this week’s photo challenge is “eerie,” I started thinking of all the photos in my library that might fit. My mind immediately went to this one, a shot of a nearly-full moon behind ragged clouds taken, appropriately enough, on Halloween last year.
Just about all of my “eerie” shots involve the moon, or clouds/fog, or both. For instance, this view of fog pouring over a hillside at sunset, and the shadows of the trees inside it.
Or this one, a this scanned photo of a lunar eclipse from 1994. I’m fairly certain that the bright splotch is the moon, and the rest, including the ring and the sharper image at upper right, are lens artifacts. It’s been so long that I don’t remember any specifics of taking the photo.
Finally I remembered a series of photos I took at the Thurston Lava Tube in Hawaii, trying to use natural light (with only the cave walls to brace the camera) and picking up ghost images of the other tourists wandering through.
I have some more shots of that cave over at K-Squared Ramblings. That’s also the blog where I’m trying to do NaBloPoMo this month. I started yesterday with a post about yesterday’s shooting at LAX and the spillover it had on the parts of town near the airport: roads closed, constant helicopter noise, sirens, and thousands of stranded travelers leaving the airport on foot, trudging over a mile dragging their luggage in a ragged line. You know, if I’d thought about it and found the right position for a photo, that would have made for a good “eerie” image.
I remember learning about the OSI seven-layer network model in college…
How TCP/IP eclipsed the Open Systems Interconnection standards to become the global protocol for computer networking
I remember learning about the OSI seven-layer network model in college, but OSI it was already more or less irrelevant as anything but a way of conceptualizing networking. The main thing that sticks in my head is an analogy to the Taco Bell seven-layer burrito, with each ingredient mapping to one of the layers.
Last year’s solar eclipse seen from Los Angeles.
Last year’s solar eclipse seen from Los Angeles. I was waaaay out of the viewing area for yesterday’s eclipse seen across Australia and the Pacific Ocean, but I got to see a really good partial eclipse last year. More photos and commentary about the experience on my blog.
Shortly before sunset, Katie noticed a really yellow quality to the light outside the window, …
Shortly before sunset, Katie noticed a really yellow quality to the light outside the window, like an eclipse (we’re *way* outside its path) or inside the smoke plume from a large fire. I went out to see. As near as I can tell, it was the reddish/golden hour light from the sun reflecting off of the cloud layer above us that was making everything look yellow. J came out too, and while he wasn’t terribly interested in the clouds or sunset, he had fun watching cars and people and looking at stuff down here on the ground.
Several eclipses lines up to show Earth’s shadow.
Solar Eclipse Through the Eyepiece
A look through the eyepiece of a filtered telescope at the May 2012 solar eclipse.
There were at least two groups at the park with telescopes, and one of them was letting anyone look at the eclipse through it. The lens on my regular camera was too long to line up with the focus of the eyepiece, but my phone was just about perfect.
I came back several times, including this one about five minutes after the peak of the eclipse. I actually took two photos, one a bit clearer, but this looked more interesting.
» Full blog post with more photos.
Tree Shadows in the Fog
The fog was pouring over the ridge just before sunset, and just minutes after a solar eclipse. I’d gone up into the hills to get above the fog and watch the eclipse and discovered a sort of mini-festival of people who had all had the same idea. More photos & writeup of the eclipse.
Santa Monica Bay at Dawn
I don’t usually get out before sunrise, but on this particular morning in 2011 I was up to watch a lunar eclipse. I found myself out on the road running along the top of the cliffs near the beach, watching the eclipsed moon set through the haze above the ocean.
You can see the Redondo Beach power plant near the right, with the pier in front of it and King Harbor jutting out into the bay. Way off in the distance you can see the lights of Santa Monica and Malibu, with the Santa Monica mountains behind them.
Time lapse video of last month’s solar eclipse, showing the moon’s shadow sweeping across
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121210.html
Time lapse video of last month's solar eclipse, showing the moon's shadow sweeping across the sky.
Discovered I missed a lunar eclipse this morning/last night, but it’s just as well…
http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/los-angeles
Discovered I missed a lunar eclipse this morning/last night, but it's just as well I didn't wake up early. (And besides, I caught a great one just last fall) On the plus side, I found a nice list of upcoming solar eclipses searchable by viewing location. August 2017 will be a good partial eclipse from Southern California, and a total eclipse along a wide track across North America. And J will be old enough to appreciate it. Road trip!
Eclipse Scope Eyepiece
Eclipse Scope Eyepiece on Flickr.
Looking at Sunday’s solar eclipse through a filtered telescope.
» More photos & writeup at my main blog.
Sun viewed through eclipse glasses
Sun viewed through eclipse glasses on Flickr.
Of the various ways I looked at the solar eclipse, my favorite was a set of “eclipse glasses” made from exposed photographic film. Everything else felt like I was looking at a picture of the sun, rather than watching something here and how, except for this and the welding helmet. And the welding helmet turned everything green.
After looking at the sun for a few seconds through the glasses, I stuck one in front of the camera and took this shot.
Solar eclipse through filtered telescope, just past greatest coverage.
Eclipse just past greatest coverage. It’s still bright out, but noticeably dimmer than this time yesterday. Filtered scope. Best thing about coming up here it’s all the people with different viewing setups.
Aaand Facebook Mobile never actually posted my status from the middle of the eclipse. I
Aaand Facebook Mobile never actually posted my status from the middle of the eclipse. I was hoping to copy+paste that into my full blog post.