Stargazing - Lunar Eclipse 28th August 2007

Once in a blue moon, (no pun intended) the amateur astronomer in me surfaces out into the open. So this time when that happened, by sheer luck, I had a chance to watch the Lunar Eclipse (that occurred on 28th August 2007) standing right in my frontyard!! On the left is one of the shots I could take with my pretty outdated digicam (with a ridiculously low zoom). Its actually the same camera with which I got the pic of the Golden Gate (the genesis of this blog), but in this case it simply gave up on me (and consequently exposed my very limited photography skills).

And without any optical aids such as binoculars, telescope or any other useful sky gazing kits, I could not capture the "red moon" :-( .

But I was lucky to get to view it with the naked eye without the clouds playing spoilsport (and at 2:10 am, even the light pollution was less!!).

Also, I found these great photos on the net if you want to really see the entire event: http://www.umatrix.net/lunar/ . Enjoy!!

While we are on this topic, you can also check this useful site for Positional Astronomy I came across a very long time back (it involves a wee bit of Math).