Tuesday, February 19, 2008

It's Time for a full Lunar Eclispe - Updated

At last we are having one Full Lunar Eclipse observable from Egypt : )

Guys, the eclipse was seen here in Cairo from start till end.
It started at the very early hours on the 21st Feb. 2008.
The Partial Eclipse started 3:43am and ended 7:09am
The Total Eclipse started 5:01 and ended 5:51
My observation location was (30-07-N) (31-21-E) and the temperature was almost freezing. I spent like 5 hours in total freeze, but it was fun, though.
I was using my Sony Digital Camera with my Reflector Meade telescope 4.5''. I had a second digital camera that was supposed to take extremely nice shots, but i couldn't find the power charger and it went off before starting.... very bad.
The eclipse coverage was as below:


For those who still need to know how the eclipse happens, take a look here:



Now for the fun part, find below the Copy Righted images i took. they aren't so much but nice.

This is Before the Eclipse starts:
This is a multiple exposure image for the first 2/3 of the Lunar Eclipse:


This is a short video for the first 2/3 of the Lunar Eclipse at high speed:




Guyz, the images are copy righted :) ... i didn't stay 5 hours freezing my toes to death to take a the pictures for someone to copy it somewhere else... : )))

I would greatly appreciate your comments :)))

4 comments:

Fesh said...

Must observe from Frozen Wastelands!

Unknown said...

nice work :))) ;)

Fesh said...

Very nice pics and I love the video!!

Fesh said...

Dude! You got to post!