just getting ready for the eclipes and saw a bright orange light in the southern sky moving east slow at about 20.30
:help: have taken a photo of it

will have to wait and see

To me its looks like a black cloud has coverd it but most of it is coverd now. i seen other people pics arround the UK and it looks very orange. Hope when fully coverd it look more orange then what it is.

took a couple tonight - pics aren't that great but it was damn cold and mny hands were shaking...!!!! :-

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ggboogy/album?.dir=a7c6re2&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//uk.photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos

just getting ready for the eclipes and saw a bright orange light in the southern sky moving east slow at about 20.30
:help: have taken a photo of it

will have to wait and see

Bright orange? Are you sure it wasn't a street light? :huh: It doesn't look very bright orange to me - faint pink more like! :o

Bright orange? Are you sure it wasn't a street light? :huh: It doesn't look very bright orange to me - faint pink more like! :o

street lights in the sky! wow :loopy:
Only messing with you satman! At my mums and had to watch - in parts! why did the sun go over the moon and then the moon appear again then the sun!:help:

Thank goodness this forum is anon! as my students would have a birthday at my ignorance!.

Wasn't the orange light the police helicopter?

I had one too! (http://s71.photobucket.com/albums/i159/Doppler1/?action=view&current=barecli3.flv)

Trouble is, mine WAS a street light.

took a couple tonight - pics aren't that great but it was damn cold and mny hands were shaking...!!!! :-

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ggboogy/album?.dir=a7c6re2&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//uk.photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos

wow-they're very good pics, i once tried taking 35mm pix of a solar eclipse, i used a reactalite welding visor, it worked fine and i'm not blind:D :D , but out of 24 exposures, i got about three useable pix:( (the weather was very cloudy:mad: )

john:)

Saw the fading orange remains of the eclipse just now as I got in.

Fantastic.

The moon?, is that old thing still around?

i saw a bright orange light too moving quite fast about maybe 30 mins before eclipse it moved across the sky quite fast then stopped and seemed to fade out i came on here to see if anyone else saw it

street lights in the sky! wow :loopy:
Only messing with you satman! At my mums and had to watch - in parts! why did the sun go over the moon and then the moon appear again then the sun!:help:

Thank goodness this forum is anon! as my students would have a birthday at my ignorance!.

As I understand it (NOT being a scientist), a lunar eclipse is when the earth, which goes around the sun, gets in between the sun and the moon (which goes around the earth). This prevents the sunlight reaching the moon and being reflected back from it as moonlight, casting a shadow over the moons surface. A total eclipse is when the moon is totally in the shadow of the earth.

There is an explanation here
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/moon/eclipse.html&edu=elem

As I understand it (NOT being a scientist), a lunar eclipse is when the earth, which goes around the sun, gets in between the sun and the moon (which goes around the earth). This prevents the sunlight reaching the moon and being reflected back from it as moonlight, casting a shadow over the moons surface. A total eclipse is when the moon is totally in the shadow of the earth.

There is an explanation here
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/moon/eclipse.html&edu=elem

yes! my mistake! HANDS UP!:hihi:

well henny penny thanks very much. I do hold my hands up, I was however quotin another forum user!

I've only just come online after an evening getting grubby and wet decorating my bathroom. I forgot all about it. Damn and blast! I'll have to get a picture of the moon and colour it in with orange felt pen and stick it to my window to get the effect. :thumbsup:

Hope you all enjoyed it, these cosmic events are often quietly awesome and moving (when i can remember to go and look. :rolleyes: )

well henny penny thanks very much. I do hold my hands up, I was however quotin another forum user!

Oh, ok. I only got my head around what was happening earlier on when I had to try and explain it to my daughter. We were sat there holding a torch for the sun and an orange for the earth and a grape for the moon :hihi: :hihi:

Unfortunately our hands got in the way and we ended up making animal silhouettes instead :)

[QUOTE=hennypenny;2010994]Oh, ok. I only got my head around what was happening earlier on when I had to try and explain it to my daughter. We were sat there holding a torch for the sun and an orange for the earth and a grape for the moon :hihi: :hihi:

Unfortunately our hands got in the way and we ended up making animal silhouettes instead :)[/QUOTE

UNSURE IF YOU ARE TAKIN THE PI**! er, like yeah!! Do I teach your child, er no! so dont take the Pi**

[QUOTE=hennypenny;2010994]Oh, ok. I only got my head around what was happening earlier on when I had to try and explain it to my daughter. We were sat there holding a torch for the sun and an orange for the earth and a grape for the moon :hihi: :hihi:

Unfortunately our hands got in the way and we ended up making animal silhouettes instead :)[/QUOTE

UNSURE IF YOU ARE TAKIN THE PI**! er, like yeah!! Do I teach your child, er no! so dont take the Pi**

No - I wasn't taking the Pi**, I was trying to share with you a friendly little anecdote about my child and I having fun together learning. Never mind.

I am rather glad you don't teach my child though.

well i thought it was funny anyway hennypenny.
i am mother of 3 boys and last night also had my nephew and neice to stay, from about 8.30 last night we kept going outside to check on the progress. trying to explain a lunar eclipse to a gaggle of kids is difficult, i wish i`d thought of the fruit/torch thing, i think it would have saved me 2 hours of questions that i couldn`t answer.

[QUOTE=hennypenny;2010994]Oh, ok. I only got my head around what was happening earlier on when I had to try and explain it to my daughter. We were sat there holding a torch for the sun and an orange for the earth and a grape for the moon :hihi: :hihi:

Unfortunately our hands got in the way and we ended up making animal silhouettes instead :)[/QUOTE

UNSURE IF YOU ARE TAKIN THE PI**! er, like yeah!! Do I teach your child, er no! so dont take the Pi**


Sorry to 'but in' but I believe she was just being genuinly friendly and don't understand how you can have taken it any other way?!!!!
And with a mouth like that I hope you never teach my daughter.:loopy:

Sorry to 'but in' but I believe she was just being genuinly friendly and don't understand how you can have taken it any other way?!!!! And with a mouth like that I hope you never teach my daughter.

It was a cute story, and makes me want to purloin a small child and make animal silhouettes too. :)

Maybe a long night moonwatching and trying to get his/her head around the theory just made dkhank a little testy :hihi:

The ambient light was most annoying while I was taking pictures of them. :(

Was out in none light polluted area near Selby last night & the eclipse was fabulous as were the rest of the stars. So clear.

Bright orange? Are you sure it wasn't a street light? :huh: It doesn't look very bright orange to me - faint pink more like! :o street lights are not that high in the sky
moving slow east then stopped then faded away not a satellite or plane or police chopper did take a photo as i was setting my stuff up 4 the eclipse
but was like a moving street light :huh:

[QUOTE=GazE;2010875]Wasn't the orange light the police helicopter?
no seen that a lot when i worked at the manor

i saw a bright orange light too moving quite fast about maybe 30 mins before eclipse it moved across the sky quite fast then stopped and seemed to fade out i came on here to see if anyone else saw it
yes i did thats good so we are not :loopy: after all

nope deff not it was strange filmed it on my phone not worth bothering tho

nope deff not it was strange filmed it on my phone not worth bothering tho will post my photo but only a orange light if it comes out
did try and find a website to report it but no luck was thinking of phoning robin hood airport to see if they had a UFO on radar
as the light faded do you think it went south ? rushing away from us

took a couple tonight - pics aren't that great but it was damn cold and mny hands were shaking...!!!! :-

http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ggboogy/album?.dir=a7c6re2&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//uk.photos.yahoo.com/ph//my_photos

You can't have been that cold - the moon only looks like that from the equator!

Was out in none light polluted area near Selby last night & the eclipse was fabulous as were the rest of the stars. So clear. sounds good did you take photos????

Funnily enough .. I took a photo with my Nokia N73 and you can see the moon pre eclipse and what looks like the moon in eclipse (orange) just down from it .. will post it up later ... thought it was just something to do with my lens .. may just be, but will post anyways ..