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There was a total lunar eclipse over New Zealand this evening, turning the moon blood red.
35 responses to “Bloody Moon”
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Excellent shot… we had the lunar eclipse this morning in Southern California, but found out after the face.
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Utterly spectacular! I realized today that I missed the eclipse. Thanks for capturing it for those that missed the real thing!
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I fell asleep with the window blinds up so I was under intense moonlight, awating the event…
But it seems that, obviously enough, as the dude turned darker and darker it made me sleep strongly rather than awaking me… silly me.
Thanks for posting this.
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Cool photo!
I set my alarm last night for 2:45 AM, just prior to the onset of totality. Remarkably, the fog stayed offshore, which is totally rare for August. The air was slightly warm, and the town was absolutely dead quiet. As I stepped outside, the shadow of the Earth was covering nearly the entire lunar surface, with just a small oblique portion of the lower right hemisphere still in sunlight. A few minutes later, the whole moon was glowing a dull orange-red against the easily visible stars of the ecliptic. It was creepy, weird. Definitely worth getting out of bed for.
The Sun and the Moon occupy nearly the same angular size in Earth’s sky. This means that to good approximation, the patch of sky covered by the moon during a central lunar eclipse contains stars with planets that can see the Earth in transit across the face of the Sun.
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I came back to France to early i think..i mess this one : (
(ps; just remembered, we had one in "Mars" lol. I forgot about it..frenchies are never happy !
But have a look to the beautiful pictures from Sparky
And his serie of Molten lava below the clouds in Hawaii, illuminating them.The all thing..from his bed view…Some are sleepyLucky…other…BadLuckySleepyGi ; )
Bloody nice Orange macro you got there Steve…i ll make an orange jus this morning, to celebrate this eclipse 😛
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Hey, there´s a cheese which is orange… don´t remember the name tho (bad for cheese names) but, can we say that an eclipse may actually be a change of the cheese composition of the moon? I wonder what total zooming at moon.google.com would bring -this time- to answer the question…
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whoah man thats awesome check out my pics too
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@Gi :
Hey, there´s a cheese which is orange… don´t remember the name tho (bad for cheese names)Where you thinking Cheddar cheese ?
I zoomed in…and whowwwww. As Murray Gell-Mann would have said…the deepest nature of all things in the universe, is made of the association of flavors. But what we never understood correctly i think, is: he was talking about cheese flavor not quarks… 😛
And this amazing cheesy discovery, make me think twice about a ""BIG scientifical revolution we encoverd with Nels1 "". It s called : The KindOf-Dalmatian cosmological Theory .
I wonder now..if the Universe is more than just a GODOG Could the CosmicDog be a big fan of Cheedar cheese..Or is it a conspiracy of the Hitchhikers, Frankie and Benjy mouse
That would explain the lattest discoveries about a big cheesyHole in the Universe : Hole a billion light-years across discovered
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It was worth getting up for. In the foothills of the sierras, there is little light pollution and with my binoculars one could tell it really is a sphere hanging as if by magic in the sky. It looked surreal. I had to tell my children that the red is from dirt in our atmosphere. When volcanoes erupt it gets ruddier.
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so nice picture, well done
love the details in the moon, and the orange color,
look so beautiful, it is like to be shy moon, loool
all the best, seee my eclipse picture
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xGunner: Yes… It also gets that way on moonrise, when shooting through a lot of dispersive atmosphere… Last night was redder than I have ever seen.
PQ: what an entangled world indeed. =)
Alieness: there’s life in dem moon rocks…
kmanroxor: The lens was a Canon 100-400mm iS. My tripod is in the Black Rock Desert, so I had to improvise the settings for a hand-held shot. Image stabilization may have saved me.
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i took a few shots as well, but i wonder why the digital SLR renders the moon a lot redder than it actually was to the naked eye. having seen lots of other examples of the lunar eclipse on flickr, the majority of them seem to be a lot redder than how we would’ve seen it…
(photon…you crack me up with your bountiful supply of wackiness!!)
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Very nice! I had hoped to gut up super early and see this formyself, but I was too tired and my lens won’t zoom in as far as I’d like to get a shot of the moon.
Surprisingly I hadn’t even seen a shot of the eclipse until I came here, so nice work!
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This photo should be used in class, at school !
Please add your photo to Photos pour l’école / Photos for school
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Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Memories: Capturing Experiences, and we’d love to have this added to the group!
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