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Originally Posted by gemy  It looks like I am out for the eclipse! Drat it all. Went out at 750 f
pm est and saw a beautifull low huge moon. Getting my photo gear together 15 minutes later We now have clouds in the sky and no glimpse of the beautifully bright orb.
Dang it all |
You have 50 minutes before the full eclipse starts. Maybe you'll get lucky.
ARGGHH, looks like I'm striking out too, again. We have some thick haze that's doubtful to move out. Even now the bright full moon is really fuzzy behind the haze, and the stuff goes up to at least 40 degrees above the horizon. With how much the moon dims during an eclipse I'm not hopeful. A normal full harvest moon is about magnitude -13 while an eclipsed moon is magnitude -1, which is about 600 times less bright. Still, magnitude -1 is very bright (the brightest star is Sirius at -1.5, or about 60% brighter than a -1.0 star) and the eclipsed moon is obvious to see if the sky is clear.