
I have also found it is better to wait til after midnight when most of the lights are off outside and the skies are much darker.
Watsisname wrote:
Watsisname wrote:At my house it was mostly cloudy, with new clouds forming over the hill the Moon had risen behind, and I only got one brief view as totality began. Decided to drive around to try elsewhere, and sure enough as soon as I got away from the hills, the sky opened up and stayed clear the whole time. It's amazing how much terrain influences clouds.
Tried a few HDR composites:
Watsisname wrote:Stellarator, JackDole, Gnargenox is referring to a small asteroid hitting the Moon during the eclipse. Impacts big enough for the flash to be observed from Earth actually happen fairly often.
I checked if any of my photos might have captured it, but alas no. The impact happened just after the eclipse became total, but I wasn't in position to view it until closer to the midpoint of totality.
A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post The moon was unusually bright even during totality, was that because it passed through the top part of the earth's umbra?
A-L-E-X wrote:Source of the post Also why was the moon so high up in the sky near the zenith? Was that because in the winter the moon gets higher up than it does in the summer?