{"id":1327,"date":"2010-12-20T12:34:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T17:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2010-12-20T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T17:39:47","slug":"total-lunar-eclipse-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/total-lunar-eclipse-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/TLE2010Dec21-ESTw.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/TLE2010Dec21-ESTw.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"TLE2010Dec21-ESTw\" width=\"536\" height=\"427\" size-full wp-image-1332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWe are firming up our plans for the total lunar eclipse monday<br \/>\nnight\/tuesday morning.<br \/>\nKim &#038; I plan to get up around 02:00 tuesday morning Dec 21st.<br \/>\nTotality is supposed to start about 02:41 EST hmm. these is conflicting data from wikipedia .. ok skip that.<br \/>\nTurning to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasc.ca\/handbook\/\">RASC  Observers handbook<\/a>&#8230; hmmm have to find the book  first.. then have to find the page&#8230;<br \/>\nyou know, it would be a *good thing* to have the book available online  in electronic format&#8230; I&#8217;ve just spent 10 minutes looking  for my paper  copy .. would have been mere seconds in the members only section&#8230; if  it existed.<\/p>\n<p>U2 (total eclipse start) is 07:40:47 UT or 02:40:47 EST<\/p>\n<p>U3 (total eclipse ends) is 08:53:08 UT or 03:53 EST<br \/>\nor 73 minutes of totality.<\/p>\n<p>Our plans are for the allsky camera to be working that evening and image the entire night as normal.<br \/>\nSee an animated image of the *last* total lunar eclipse we saw in February 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/concam\/special\/lunar20080220.gif\">http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/concam\/special\/lunar20080220.gif<\/a><br \/>\nWe also plan to get a video camera up and running on a tracking schmidt  cass telescope  and try to keep it in the field of view.  The last  eclipse we ran into issues with too high a power, the inability to track  on the moon, etc.<\/p>\n<p>We also plan to take digital camera images over the course of the<br \/>\nmorning as well.  Unfortunately it is a work day, so part of the plan is to get to sleep  early monday evening to try and keep us from getting fired on Tuesday   for sleeping on the job \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>What are *you* planning for observing???<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2010\/17dec_solsticeeclipse\/\">http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/science-news\/science-at-nasa\/2010\/17dec_solsticeeclipse\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The eclipse begins on Tuesday morning, Dec. 21st, at 1:33 am EST (Monday, Dec. 20th, at 10:33 pm PST). At that time, Earth&#8217;s shadow will appear as a dark-red bite at the edge of the lunar disk. It takes about an hour for the &#8220;bite&#8221; to expand and swallow the entire Moon. Totality commences at 02:41 am EST (11:41 pm PST) and lasts for 72 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re planning to dash out for only one quick look -\u00ad it is December, after all -\u00ad choose this moment: 03:17 am EST (17 minutes past midnight PST). That&#8217;s when the Moon will be in deepest shadow, displaying the most fantastic shades of coppery red. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}