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Lunar Eclipse Tonight March 3rd
March 3rd, 2007 | 
Author: You may be aware that there is a full lunar eclipse tonight. The full moon will pass directly through Earth’s Shawdow and become red. Unfortunately if you live in Western Canada like me, it will be over or just about finished as the moon rises.
Not to worry, we will get a full Lunar Eclipse the evening of Aug 28th 2006. Mark this dae down in your calendar.
If you want to see what little of the eclipse you can you have to get out for moonrise and have a clear view of the Eastern Horizon. You may be able to detect a slight shawdow on the edge of the moon as it moves out of the last part of earth’s shadow. It will be extremely difficult to see and chances are you won’t see anything!
Stephen
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Hawaii photos published!
I have posted the photos of our recent trip to Maui. If you are interested you can see the pictures here.
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Some new moon photos
I have posted some new moon photos to my gallery http://photos.chinookcity.com in the moon album. A couple of are a 2 day old moon and there are some earth shine shots. These were taken Dec 22, 2006 and were the first photos taken through my new Sky Watcher 100ED Telescope.
Also there are some photos taken of the moon Christmas day. These were taken through a new William Optics ZenithStar 66MM SD APO scope I picked up. This looks to be a sweet little portable scope and will be great for wide field imaging and guiding!
Stephen
Guide to buying a digital camera
Posted and article on buying a Digital camera over on my business blog site. If you are interested check out
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Beautiful Site
I went out very late last night to have a quick peek at the skies before heading off to bed. I usually do this everynight. It was about 3:30 AM and the half moon was high in the sky but I could see what looked like a little star very close to the moon. I went back in grabbed my little quick set up portable scope (A Skywatcher Short Tube 80 MM refractor) and quickly attached it to my photo tripod. Grabbed a diagonal and Vixen 24 – 8mm eyepiece and had a look.
What a beautiful site, it was not a star at all but Saturn. In my wide field view on this little scope I could see the moon surface clearly and then the small rings of Saturn. I spent about 15 minutes zooming in on the moon and then the planet until the clouds started rollig in.
Really wish I could have set up a camera and grabbed an image but that would have taken too long. Still it was a beautiful site to see.
Stephen