Total Lunar Eclipse - 2/20/2008

[KnowWhatIsTrue]

excellent work BTW

[KnowWhatIsTrue]

Acts 2:20

'THE SUN WILL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESSAND THE MOON INTO BLOOD,BEFORE THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY OF THE LORD SHALL COME. (eclipse). Note: the next few lunar and solar eclipse fall on Jewish feast days. History repeats itself. Luv

[TomSFox]

Oh noes! The devil made the moon vanish!

And by the way, there were never any people on the moon!

Nah, just yankin' ya!

[pmokadakeisuke]

I watched the one March 2007 too. Last one until 2010. :(

[iviewthetube]

How did you get each frame to precisely overlay on the previous frame? Your earlier comments suggest that you did not use any electronic tracking.

[shanedk]

No, they were aligned in post.

[iviewthetube]

Wow, that must have been tedious, but I am really impressed. A company called Orion has a relatively cheap ($200?) equatorial mount available to synchronize with the sidereal rotation of the earth for clicking astrophotography. Your only job is to align the motor's axis to be parallel with the earth's axis (hint: the North Star, Polaris.)

[shanedk]

I've looked into those, but I don't do enough of this to make it worth the price. It wasn't that tedious, as it was a series of stills and not a video.

[genocyde83]

Wonder if Dracula's castle appeared that night too? Looks like the castlevania moon.

[teacherspet7]

whoa the dark side is comming

[leporidus]

At 2:12 I'm actually able to grasp how big Earth is compared to the Moon. Absolutely stunning.

[shanedk]

Even the ancient Greeks saw that. They knew the ratio of the size of the Earth to the size of the Moon. I wrote about that in my blog, and made a composite of that image I took and the full Earth shot from the Apollo missions. Check it out!

[leporidus]

Done! I like the 1024x768 version of the composite. Reading about Eratosthenes and his fellow thinkers reminds me about the loss of knowledge that was the repeated destruction of the Library of Alexandria.

Well done, Shane; after the BABlog, Pharyngula, GoodMath, Skepchick and NeuroLogica etc. another Blog to read, and so little time on my hands. {-:

[shanedk]

Thanks, everyone, for the music suggestions, but I don't think it needs any. It's way cool enough on its own. I didn't have any music on when I watched it, and it was amazing.

As much as I love music, there's something to be said for silent contemplation. And there's just something very profound behind the lunar eclipse. I wrote about that on my blog at shanekillian dot org.

[PromisingGalahad]

I tried catching the eclipse but overcast was present in my neck of the woods too. This was the next best thing. Thanks, Shane.

Thanks also for not surprising us with a shrieking zombie jumping out at us at the end of the video. Honestly, I was expecting it, somehow. Damn those videos.

I'm going to look one up right now.

When's the next installment of Bogosity?

[shanedk]

Whenever I get over this cold and finish editing it.

[MarkZaKing]

i thought the same about the shreiking zombie

[smartbandwidth]

Great job!! Thanks very much for doing this!! Hey can you dube in Josh Groban's "You Raised Me Up" for background music? That would make it perfect!! Thanks again!

[Snowball99]

Oh no! Shane made moongod dissappear! Shane must have strong magic. Shane control the skygods!

[lennyhipp]

No no NO Shane! IN order to approximate 60x Simulation, you MUST multiply by 1.5 and double it! Haven't you learned ANYTHING!?

oh... wait... wrong video.

erm, never mind!

carry on.

[whistling]

how 'bout those Mets?

[speciousreasons]

Thanks Shane! I had the same idea, but no equipment to do it with.

[shanedk]

It was just a digital camera on a tripod. This one has a 10x optical zoom, so it worked pretty good. My other camera has a setting to open the shutter for longer periods of time, and that would have been better to use as the eclipse progressed, but that camera only has a 3x zoom and the moon would have been less than 100 pixels across.

[ebaumguy]

WE LIKE THE MOOON

also, thanks for saving the eclipse for us :)

[TheEndOfDogma]

Lunar eclipses suck, solar are much better! I'm not just saying that because I missed it.

[agentorange20]

Awesome work Shane.

[ZeroMotivation]

Ah nature...

[scott01019]

awesome video; i was watching it too. it was spectacular.

[SirMildredPierce]

Yet another fake by the Nasascammerfakernauts no doubt. There was no eclipse!  It was done on a sound stage!

Okay, I'm only guessing it was fake since I accidentally fell asleep and missed the whole thing. I didn't see it and all I'm left with is photographic evidence which is seriously faulty. Much more faulty than my own biases for sure.

[snownet]

Thanks! I couldn't catch the eclipse because of overcast :(

[smaakjeks]

Awesome. Now we who live in Eastern USA, Europe, Asia, and near the arctic circle have the solar eclipse of the century to look forward to. August 1st: total eclipse. Booyah!

[CapnOrdinary]

Beautiful!

(On a side note, I want a t-shirt that says "Eat the Moon")

[kirafan68]

Thank you so much for posting this!

[MikeSarno]

Great work! Thanks!

[spunkeez]

i love it when that happens

[JonathanClement140]

I saw it last night... Wasn't as red as I remember it...

[Hooya2]

Nifty

[Z4lUS]

Love the redness.  Beautiful. :)