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Moon last night
Copyrights: Charles L. Hakes Lunar Eclipse
Copyrights: Ryan Wilhelm Lunar Eclipse
Copyrights: Ben Cooper Lunar Eclipse of 15-April, 2014
Copyrights: David Hightower Lunar Eclipse over Houghton and Hancock, MI
Copyrights: Eric Isaacs Lunar Eclipse at San Diego Bay
Copyrights: Kevin Baird Lunar eclipse from Florida Keys
Copyrights: Tunc Tezel Lunar Eclipse this morning from the Wisconsin State Capitol
Copyrights: Zig Hampel

Total lunar eclipse (April 15th.)
Copyrights: Damian Peach Lunar eclipse from Inca fortress
Copyrights: Juan Carlos Casado Moon Eclipse of April 15th, 2014
Copyrights: James Smallwood Lunar eclipse
Copyrights: Marc Leatham Lunar Eclipse
Copyrights: Bryce Gandy 15 April 2014 Eclipse
Copyrights: Grady Owens

Earth's Shadow

As perceived in this composite image.

Ignacio Diaz Bobillo
http://www.pampaskies.com

Moon and Spica.
copyright: Aldo Mottino (Rosario, Argentina)

Hi everyone. Great pictures of the eclipse!

So, here is my contribution. I traveled to Arches National Park (Utah) to capture this image. I had to carry ~100 pounds of gear on the trail to Delicate Arch (tripods, telescope, ...) which was extremely challenging but totally worth it.



Link to higher resolution: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-dltZ ... pse_v3.jpg

Technical details: 5D Mark II, 24mm f/4. Exposures are 15sec for totality and 1/250 for partial phase.

I did not want to do any light painting, but a group of photographers who was also at the same spot kept illuminating the arch every once in a while, so I had to deal with it. Turns out it's not that bad.

Cheers,

Jean-Francois

Lonely girl in eclipse time
http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=611
Copyright: Petr Horálek After nervous 680km long drive across the north island of New Zealand for some chances of good weather me and my sister Katerina almost incredibly succeded. We found a small field-road next to the main road to Takatiki, where the clouds miraculously dissipated just couple minutes after beginning of totality and we could be witnessed by absolutely stunning views in southern starry sky during the eclipse on 15th April 2014. Perfect timing of the clouds avoided us to see just the total eclipse – the partial eclipse before and after was lost due to clouds. Thanks to the dark sky of this region was visible also zodiacal bridge and Gegenschein just in the same position like the Moon with Spica an Mars. And small bonus – a green color on horizon is very faint airglow.

Full dimension of image: http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/wp-conte ... r_2070.png

Lunar eclipse over St. George, UT. USA
Copyrights: Timothy M. Farr Lunar Eclipse Sequence from Buenos Aires
Copyrights: Enzo De Bernardini Lunar Eclipse
Copyrights: Bret Dahl Lunar Eclipse - Mach Road - Ennis, Texas
Copyrights: Matthew J. Hampton Lunar Eclipse Full Cycle
Copyrights: Jay Ballauer Lunar Eclipse at Montefiore Hill, Adelaide, South Australia
Copyrights: Wayne England Red Moon with Red Volcano and Red Clouds
Copyrights: Wang Letian

Title of image
Copyright: Alson Wong This image shows most of the Moon's surface covered by the umbra (total eclipse portion of the Earth's shadow). While most of the Moon's surface appears reddish because of sunlight being refracted through the Earth's atmosphere, the edge of the umbra appears bluish due to the absorption of ozone in the Earth's upper atmosphere. The lower right portion of the Moon's surface is covered by the penumbra (partial eclipse portion of the Earth's shadow).

The Moon Total Eclipse on April 15th, With the star 76 Virginis at magnitude of 5 top left.

Mars and the Moon with the same apparent magnitude during the eclipse.
Copyrigth: César Cantú

http://www.astrophoto.com.mx/picture.ph ... category/8

Blood Moon
http://www.gcollier.com
Copyright: Grant Collier



I took this shot at a remote rock formation in Utah. I had to combine two exposures ... one for the moon, one for the rest of the scene. Otherwise the moon would have been blown out.

Title of image
Copyright: Alson Wong

Lunar eclipse from New Mexico
Copyrights: Stan Honda Lunar Eclipse 4/15/14
Copyrights: Bernard Miller Blood Moon
Copyrights: Jesse Thomas Hesch

iAstrophoto of 4/15/14 Lunar Eclipse
http://www.iAstrophotography.com
Copyright: Matt Schwartz

This image of the 4/15/14 lunar eclipse "blood moon" was taken using a Celestron AstroMaster 130 and an iPhone 5s in San Diego, CA.

Spelling the Eclipse by Mona Garliceanu, on Flickr

Spelling the eclipse - map by Mona Garliceanu, on Flickr

WO 90mm APO refractor, 1.5x Barlow, 0.8 field flattener, and a Canon 5D3 digital camera.

Three layered images of the Moon: 4 sec, 10 sec, 4 sec @ ISO 200.

www.jasscientia.com

James Smallwood

Red Moon in the Umbra
Copyrights: Wang Letian Eclipsed Moon
Copyrights: Juan Miguel Castillo Navarro Eclipse
Copyrights: Michael S. F. Watson

FYI, such images as these should be represented at the June AAS Meeting. Any takers?
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The American Astronomical Society will soon be having its 224th meeting in Boston in the first week of June. And there is a new first time event: an Astrophotography Poster session on June 3rd that will feature excellence in amateur astrophotography. We invite skilled amateur astrophotographers to come show their work and how they've imaged the night sky in a forum that features the beauty and wonder we all know and love.

Learn more here: http://aas.org/meetings/aas224/astrophotography

We're also doing an urban star party by the convention, and featuring special amateur-oriented talks that day. In general, this will be an amazing program, and as a Board Member of an amateur association in NYC, I can tell you that the Society is doing a great job supporting all of these events.

Jason Kendall
224th AAS Amateur Events Associate Coordinator
Adjunct, Dept. of Physics, William Paterson University
Astronomy Liaison, WPU