9 February 2009 Penumbral LUNAR (not solar) Eclipse in Singapore

A penumbral eclipse occurs when the moon passes through the earth's penumbral shadow, causing a slight darkening of the moon's disc. This video was taken through a celestron powerseeker 127 EQ by a Nikon Coolpix L10.
This eclipse marks the end of the Lunar New Year, 14 days after the partial solar eclipse occurred. The video, for the most part, was taken at about 10:20pm Singapore time (+0800 GMT), 18 minutes before maximum eclipse can be seen.

For a SOLAR eclipse, please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4amIMFnx0t4

Also, please visit my blog http://breakthroughphysics.blogspot.com/ for articles on physics written by me, as well as astronomy images.

Category:

Science & Technology

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• Singapore
• Penumbral
• Lunar
• Eclipse
• Telescope
• February
• 2009

[bond00777777]

what is the optical transition?

[starsoffyre]

@bond00777777

In what context?

[bond00777777]

@starsoffyre it is a transition - and the camera lens and eyepiece - telescope ... do not forget to photograph Jupiter's minimum distance is only 100 million km.

[starsoffyre]

@bond00777777

Well I haven't heard of that term before in astrophotography. The setup I used was simply an auto point-and-shoot held up to the 20mm eyepiece of a 5-inch aperture, 1000mm focal length scope.

[lalo3539]

how often do lunar eclipse happen? anybody know? and when is the next one

[starsoffyre]

@lalo3539

Lunar eclipses occur about twice a year. The next lunar eclipse will occur on June 26 this year.

[bond00777777]

@starsoffyre thanks

[Skalar300]

Fantastically!

[carmelorocks]

:01

[starsoffyre]

Thanks! Yes I've just watched it...you might wanna look at my other video, which was same eclipse that you saw.