Total Lunar Eclipse tonight (Saturday, December 10, 2011) starts at 7:33 PM.

[rodsky]

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Penumbral contact (or P1) occurs at 7:33 PM local (PH) time. However, unless you have good equipment, you will have a hard time detecting this. You will begin to see the moon's disc darken at around 7:45-8:00 PM.

Umbral Contact (U1) occurs at 8:45 PM. From here on, you will start to see the curvature of the earth's shadow on the lunar surf...ace slowly creep across the moon's disc, from the bottom of the moon, upwards. The moon will be completely in earth's shadow (U2) by 10:06 PM. Greatest eclipse (midpoint of the entire eclipse) will occur at 10:31 PM. At this point, depending on the conditions of the earth's atmosphere, the shadow will either be grayish-black, or a deep red.

U3 (reappearance) by 10:57 PM, but you will perhaps see it more by 11:10 PM. The moon will be out of the umbra (U4) by 12:18 PM, and the eclipse ends an hour after that.





December 2011 lunar eclipse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

-RODION

[leo_trams]

my kids are enjoying it right now.
previous eclipses were either cloudy or they were already asleep.
karon pa sila nakakita ug lunar eclipse.
thanks for this post sir Rodsky.

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[beyee]

Lunar Eclipse as of 10 pm..
(using my phone)

[ChaosOrb]

it seems that the weather is cooperating this time. Kung kinsa to naay nice nga VIDEO/CAM it would be nice to post pics here...I'm viewing it right now. Gamay nalang kulang ma.overshadowed na ang moon.

[xirc]

nag sugod na ug kapula ang buwan

[beyee]

Raw shot of the lunar eclipse as of 10:16 pm

[ChaosOrb]

been watching around 10pm and saw a couple of meteor streaking along..

[rodsky]

My shots...

@ 7:40 PM


@ 8:46 PM


@ 8:52 PM


@ 9:26 PM


@ 9:41 PM


@ 10:01 PM (shutter speed slowed down to show reddish shadow)


@ 10:06 PM (two minutes after totality)


Moon will start to re-emerge from the earth's shadow in about 20 minutes after this post.

-RODION

[ChaosOrb]

thanks sir rodsky!!

[nirpz]

nice view...nice pagka kuha dah..