Last week, exactly on Monday, a buddy of mine invited me to watch the lunar eclipse through a proper telescope on top of the roof of the college building along with other members of the Astronomy Club. Being a space freak and all that, I was pretty excited. At 7.30 p.m, we all stood huddled around the telescope messing with the focus, viewfinder and trying to keep the telescope trained on the Moon slowly making its way across the sky. We wait, expecting a dark shadow of the Earth slowly eclipsing the Moon. An hour passes. No luck. I notice a slight darkening of the lower left part. A quick call to a professional astronomer reveals that it's a PENUMBRAL lunar eclipse. Crazy astronomy club, waiting to see the *slight* darkening of the Moon when I could have done it with Photoshop. Lol.
Monday, February 16, 2009
Lunar eclipse...(supposedly)
Last week, exactly on Monday, a buddy of mine invited me to watch the lunar eclipse through a proper telescope on top of the roof of the college building along with other members of the Astronomy Club. Being a space freak and all that, I was pretty excited. At 7.30 p.m, we all stood huddled around the telescope messing with the focus, viewfinder and trying to keep the telescope trained on the Moon slowly making its way across the sky. We wait, expecting a dark shadow of the Earth slowly eclipsing the Moon. An hour passes. No luck. I notice a slight darkening of the lower left part. A quick call to a professional astronomer reveals that it's a PENUMBRAL lunar eclipse. Crazy astronomy club, waiting to see the *slight* darkening of the Moon when I could have done it with Photoshop. Lol.
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