Total Lunar Eclipse Jan 21 @ 00:12

[Ed.Mizzi]

Jeff, Great eclipse image but the ISS video was amazing!!!

Roger, Great video of the entire event.

Ed

[Jeff.Booth]

Starting to look like there was an impact on the Lunar surface, just before totality during Sunday-Monday's eclipse.

There are now several reports of this ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNvfBCu-jjI

https://twitter.com/willgater/status/1087478475919900672

Cheers
Jeff


PS: Hopefully the lunar dinosaurs were safe in their bunkers.

[Ed.Mizzi]

Quite amazing...the Moon is obviously trying to draw attention to itself and probably feeling left out, now that we are focusing so much attention on Mars, etc.

[Jeff.Booth]

Here is an update on the eclipse impact event...


A METEOROID SLAMS INTO THE MOON:

On Jan. 21st, a meteoroid slammed into the Moon. We know this because many amateur astronomers witnessed the explosion. The fireball was visible against the shadowy backdrop of a total lunar eclipse.  Visit today's edition of Spaceweather.com for images, video, and the full story.

cheers
jeff

[Jeff.Booth]

Finally got a chance to spend some time processing data from the recent Total Lunar Eclipse.
This is a stacking of 10 images, bracketed,* taken in quick succession during totality. Location, our back patio in Bronte.
These exposures are all ISO 800 and range from 1s to 8s in length
Stacked and aligned in Autostakkert, then a touch of PixInsight to attack 'noise.'
With the images collected here, during totality – where the Moon was amazingly dim – it was very difficult getting detail/fine focus. The stacking helped bring some out.
Thanks for lookin'.

Tech stuff: Canon T5i on the back of a SkyWatcher ED 600mm f7.5, atop a CGEM mount that was "roughly" aligned.

And let's not forget this part ... Ambient temp: -17.1C !!!

Jeff

Bracketed: A range of exposures.

[Scott.Barrie]

Beautiful image, Jeff!

Scott

[Jeff.Booth]

Thanks Scott .... one the cool things with this experience was -- suddenly -- seeing stars right beside the Moon.
It is normally way to bright for those stars to be visible to us.
Cheers
jeff