3rd March - Total Lunar Eclipse (Merged... again)

[Rustynailer]

Thin high level cloud is about now

[Supercell]

Woahh...freakish incident here. The whole estate just had a power cut. Various searchlights were appearing as people attempted to see with their torches.

[Costa Del Fal]

Here in Kidderminster the moon will only have about a quarter of it visible soon!

[Mondy]

Think i've got a bit of your cloud, Frozen North! It's skimming by fast so should clear

[Guest Viking141]

Bu**er! Cloudy again! Pretty much a quarter gone before the clouds came.

[Costa Del Fal]

Only 1/4 left of moon here now!

Edited March 3, 2007 by Blizzards

[frozen_north]

Aye its moving away now as 1/2 the sky is clear. Too bad the moon is in the other half. I think I'll be able to see it agin in the next 10 minutes though.

[kaz]

Its just over half way now and lovely and clear.. not a cloud in the sky awsome

lol kaz x

[Somerset Squall]

Phew! The cloud overhead is now gone! Back to viewing.

[Guest Viking141]

Woohoo clouds gone,about two thirds covered now.

[cobbettp]

Thats strange the moon seems to have lost power?

[J10]

Was clear half an hour ago, turned cloudy now.

[Costa Del Fal]

The moon should be going orangey soon!

Very little left of the moon now!

Edited March 3, 2007 by Blizzards

[Rustynailer]

I think this may be my last cloud free one for a while

Russ

[cobbettp]

why does it turn orange, is it some sort of light spectrum?

[frozen_north]

Well the very bottom of the moon is already turning orange.

[cobbettp]

I guess when the moon goes, it will come back

[Spurry]

It's looking pretty Blue here

[Costa Del Fal]

The moon is creating an Orangey Glow now!

[phil b]

still crystal clear here

[Weather-history]

The brightness is determined by how deep the moon goes into the Earth's umbral shadow and about how "dirty" the atmosphere is ie, the amount of aerosols are present. The moon can be very dark and almost invisible as it was during the December 1992 lunar eclipse. This was attributed to the aerosols present in the atmosphere caused by the Mt Pintabou eruption of the previous year. The scale that is used to estimate the brightness of a total lunar eclipse is called the Danjon Scale. It ranges from 0: very dark, to 4 which is very bright orange.

At the moment it looks like its got a polar ice cap

[Somerset Squall]

Only a small part left now, covered section glowing a pretty orange. Lovely.

[MP-R]

Very little left of the moon - it looks like a fingernail. No orangey glow yet but I'm still looking.

[frozen_north]

I still find it hard to imgaine that its the earths shadow that is causing the moon to go red. Its the scale at which this happens which is hard to get my head around. Only 4 minutes to go.

[cobbettp]

almost gone