Astronomy Thread

[Nally Stand]

Fierce light off the moon tonight.

Eclipse tonight/morning in the early hours. By all accounts, if there's no cloud cover, Ireland is one of the best places to view it from

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/12/calling-all-night-owls-and-moon-gazers-total-lunar-eclipse.html

[Main Street]

The best places are further north and west of Ireland.
The moon is so bright now, the stars are all but invisible.

[ziggysego]

Mmmh, a warm bed or a night outside in -10 temperatures?

I think I'll go to bed. Night.

[Arthur_Friend]

Fierce light off the moon tonight.

Eclipse tonight/morning in the early hours. By all accounts, if there's no cloud cover, Ireland is one of the best places to view it from

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/12/calling-all-night-owls-and-moon-gazers-total-lunar-eclipse.html

Any idea what time it starts at?

[Arthur_Friend]

Fierce light off the moon tonight.

Eclipse tonight/morning in the early hours. By all accounts, if there's no cloud cover, Ireland is one of the best places to view it from

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/12/calling-all-night-owls-and-moon-gazers-total-lunar-eclipse.html

Any idea what time it starts at?

Got it - around 6.30 am

http://news.scotsman.com/news/Scots-to-get-best-view.6666997.jp

[Main Street]

About 3/4 eclipsed now. That was/is the brightest moon I have ever witnessed.

[Arthur_Friend]

About 3/4 eclipsed now. That was/is the brightest moon I have ever witnessed.

Lucky you, I'm looking at feckin snow clouds. 

[Main Street]

The stars are glowing all over the sky now. She is eclipsed now but there is still a hint of a dim rusty orange sheen to her. Not quite a total eclipse?

[gerry]

Another chance to see it on the 15th june. Hopefully no fog then unlike this morning.

[Main Street]

Live feed of the eclipse over Iceland

http://live.mila.is/tungl2/

[StGallsGAA]

The stars are glowing all over the sky now. She is eclipsed now but there is still a hint of a dim rusty orange sheen to her. Not quite a total eclipse?

Yes it was a total eclipse.  When the earth's shadow totally eclipse the moon the sunlight bends around the earth's atmosphere making the moon orange and quite visible.

Glad I set the alarm to watch it now.  Deadly!

[Olly]

Happy birthday to Neptune. It is 1 today since it was invented.

It would take years to get there. Even if you put a baby in a rocket and sent it there with provisions like milk etc and it lived til 70 it would be long dead before it got there.

[Goldengreen]

http://www.donegalskies.com/#!vstc3=aurorawatch

Aurora Alert: 21st Jannary

On 19th of January the sun blasted a coronal mass ejection (CME) towards Earth.  The CME is predicted to strike the Earths atmosphere on the 21st of January at 22.30(+/- 7 hours). The effect of this CME, will result in evaluated chances of northern lights displays above Ireland and the UK. Stay tuned to Spaceweather.com,  Softservenews.com/aurora for elevated Kp values and keep an eye out for clear skies. Kp values of 6 or greater should result in aurora displays over Ireland and northern parts of the UK.

[lawnseed]

i'm heading up carrickatuke tonight. i'm reliably told that if i look north i'll see a black hole.. richill or portadown. sorry lads

[southdown]

Thinking of going to Iceland soon, is it any good for seeing the northern lights?