Anyone else waiting for an eclipse ? / mad

[Trainfish]

I just looked outside and the moon isn't even up there. Does that mean it has been eclipsed or am I barking up the wrong tree out there? Actually there's a link there to "the last time"...................

I'm going to bed

[Trainfish]

I've been ordered to cover up after the last time. But that's a story for another day......................

That was the time people really did think the moon had fallen into Devizes?

Well, there definitely WAS a moon that night and it wasn't in the Crammer 

[MalcolmInN]

Still a bit to go,
and I am thinking ( ! )
Fred's diagram shows not exactly a central pass, but he does not say for what lattitude ? So, considering that he is in North America and typically lat40 (give or take) will it be even more a bit less than a middle pass for us at 50+ looking a bit down on it ?

Wot am I on about y'all may ask, well this media hype about the moon turning red !
Not particularily so unless it passes (centrally) thro the middle of the deepest bit !
based on previous eclipses I predict that "copper coloured" will be a bit better description

[MalcolmInN]

20min ago begining to darken top left as moon goes into umbra :

[MalcolmInN]

[MalcolmInN]

Above two shots hand held 18x zoom on Panasonic FZ18
at f8 1/200 and f5.6 1/200

just realised that I loaned my tripod to daughter some time ago,
I'm not going to be able to get shots down in totality ! argh
unless I can find a convenient wall to prop my uncertain hand on !
oh woe

anyone still awake ?

[MalcolmInN]

Oh what a perfect sky for it,
even able to show swmbo the Andromeda Galaxy M31 eyeball with -  the moon in the sky at the same time !

[MalcolmInN]

Well, that was QI
but I must be mad, it is now 4:50am local
nitenight !

[Bealman]

Nite nite I mean good morning. Great moon pics! 

[Geoff]

Totally missed the first eclipse but thanks for the photo 

[D1042 Western Princess]

I've just got out of the shower. Do I have approval to wander around the garden in my bath robe to see it?

I was going to say they'd certainly see it if the bathrobe comes undone, but on a rethink decided such low grade comments were beneath me so I won't. 

[D1042 Western Princess]

Being involved with 'minor party'
Good luck to those staying up.

Sharp intake of breath ! I fear we may need another topic to do justice to Jeremy and Nigel 

but to be fair - the facts of the 'super' moon and its orbit are true, just not the bit about it being noticable to yer average joe ( and i dont mean that in a superior manor, just a convenient economy of keyboard )
I have in my archives (for another thread / time ) a composite pic of the moon at perigee and apogee and the difference is notable,
but simply just not noticable to when - out there watching unaided eye -

I promised to keep off politics when I joined so couldn't possibly respond to your first part.
Re the second I was thinking of comments from reporters implying that the moon would 'look a lot larger than usual' and such like.
As others have commented, it will disappoint a lot of casual observers that it won't appear any different to them size wise than any other night.

[steve836]

I've been ordered to cover up after the last time. But that's a story for another day......................

We boggle ! , ,  but we have another hour to go 'for anything else exciting happens so carry on , , , !

me - my neighbours are so far away they coldna' see nohow, especially when, in summer, the leaves are on the trees,
too much info,
te dum te dum,

it's still bright AND COLD out there !

If its that cold your neighbors won,t see anything anyway

[MikeDunn]

Anyone else mad enough to be waiting up ?

Lemme see - nope ...  Work day today  :'(

PS dont believe all this media hype about a super-moon, the % difference will not be noticable to the unpracticed eye without a filar micrometer eyepiece.

People will have seen the Moon near the horizon looking big & gone "wow, they wos right !"    I'm always a little saddened & annoyed when the meedya harp on about how "rare" it is - cobblers !  A total eclipse visible from the UK - now that's rare !  A supermoon ?  The physics dictate one happens every 14 lunars ... although halfway through the period you can get 3 in a row (physics is like that, sometimes  ) although the one before & one after will new supermoons, and therefore not visible 

[Bealman]

Nowt's visible in Tasmania at the moment.... and that includes the top of the mountain behind Hobart.