Total Lunar Eclipse - 28 Aug 2007

asterixsg · Post by **asterixsg** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:14 am

Hello all,

Just want to share this photograph of the total lunar eclipse on 28 Aug 2007. I am a very slow worker with extremely limited photoshop skills. Please bear with me while I work on the other images. Will post them soon.

starfinder · Post by **starfinder** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:25 am

That is a really good photo! It captures the various coppery-red hues very well.

Lucky you to be in Australia at that time.

Whereabouts did you go in the Northern Territory? What's at Curtin Springs?

asterixsg · Post by **asterixsg** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:50 am

starfinder wrote:That is a really good photo! It captures the various coppery-red hues very well.

Lucky you to be in Australia at that time.

Whereabouts did you go in the Northern Territory? What's at Curtin Springs?

Thanks.

I had travelled to Australia specifically to photograph the eclipse.

In addition to photographing the lunar eclipse, I travelled to the Red Centre - from Alice Springs to Kings Canyon, Uluru, Olgas, Rainbow valley, Chambers Pillar etc.

I chose Curtin Springs because I wanted to use Mt. Connor as the backdrop for my first attempt at multi-exposure photograph of the eclipse. Mt. Connor is also known as Atilla by the aborigines. When travelling to Uluru from Alice Springs, you will come across this mountain around 80 kms prior to reaching Uluru. People often mistake Mt. Connor to be Uluru itself.

jiahao1986 · Post by **jiahao1986** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:04 am

Awesome work man!!! Can't wait to see your work for next year's total solar eclipse!

asterixsg · Post by **asterixsg** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:15 am

jiahao1986 wrote:Awesome work man!!! Can't wait to see your work for next year's total solar eclipse!

Thanks. I am waiting for you to organize the trip to China for the total solar eclipse. ha ha.

starfinder · Post by **starfinder** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:14 am

asterixsg wrote: I had travelled to Australia specifically to photograph the eclipse.

That's mission accomplished!

I've never been to the Red Centre before, though I have seen Uluru (f.k.a. Ayer's Rock) and the Olgas from the air. I think it was the Melbourne-Singapore sector.

So... a Red Moon over the Red Centre. How apt. Great planning!

I have read somewhere that during a total lunar eclipse, if one were to stand on the Moon, the Earth would appear blacked out except for a ring of red all around its surface. That ring is all the sunrises and sunsets of the world occuring at that time, which is what causes the Moon to be seen from Earth as having a coppery colour.

Eg, here: http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/LEprimer.html

"During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth blocks the Sun's light from reaching the Moon. Astronauts on the Moon would then see the Earth eclipsing the Sun. (They would see a bright red ring around the Earth as they watched all the sunrises and sunsets happening simultaneousely around the world!)"

From the point of view of the Moon, it would be a total solar eclipse. Whilst we see a ring of white during our total solar eclipses, from the Moon, a ring of red is seen.

I wonder if this red ring has ever been photographed from space or the Moon.

Maybe they (NASA, ESA, etc) could send a spacecraft to the Moon's surface as a permanent base to image the Earth from that distance on a global basis. They would, e.g., then regularly be able to have time-lapse videos of the entire spinning globe of the Earth.

jermng · Post by **jermng** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:07 pm

Maybe they (NASA, ESA, etc) could send a spacecraft to the Moon's surface as a permanent base to image the Earth from that distance on a global basis. They would, e.g., then regularly be able to have time-lapse videos of the entire spinning globe of the Earth.

That would be so cool! Especially when there are eclipses.