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The Rusty Moon

Started by fct-150, 04/15/2014 07:31AM
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Posted 04/15/2014 07:31AM Opening Post
Andy Sedlacek
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Location: Spokane Vly WA, US

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Anyone else get to watch the lunar eclipse tonight (now morning)? Clouds were increasing all night here in the Spokane, WA vicinity, but Jill and I were able to see it reach total darkness before it became solid overcast.
I was going to sit outside all night and watch, now too cloudy. Oh well; it was a good show while it lasted.
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8) FS-152SV sitting in the office
grin Japanes super lucky zen observatory garden
:S Meade ETX-90 finder scope position
shocked Hino Optical Mizar 120SL observatory model
:C SR-4mm eyepiece with a 3x barlow in a 60mm refractor
8O Zeiss Victory 7x42 SFs
wink Having over 135 vintage oculars to play with
smile My life surrounded by wonderful friends and impeccable optics
Posted 04/15/2014 07:47AM #1
Dave Erickson
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Hi Andy,
Yes both from Huntington Beach Ca and the remote observatory in the southern Sierra Nevadas Regards,
Dave
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Posted 04/15/2014 08:58PM #2
Ron Oehlert
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Clear, cold (below freezing) and no wind in central Kansas allowed great viewing all night. Limiting naked-eye visual magnitude was 3 during totality here in town. Seeing was poor, about 4 or 5 on the 10-point Harvard Observatory scale so I left Mars & Saturn for another night. With the unaided eye & telescopic views the Moon appeared pale orange just like Mars. Scopes used were a 10" @ 35X and a 5" @ 16X plus a 10X60mm finder. Took a moment to also view M-13 during totality and it showed well @ 80X despite the poor Seeing.
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Posted 04/17/2014 04:55AM | Edited 04/17/2014 04:56AM #3
Fred Lusk
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I was able to watch most of it, but clouds were a problem here also. I just posted six photos in the Digital SLR Astrophotography section.
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