|
Summary: The
full moon glided through Earth's shadow on May 15/16,
2003. Sky watchers in the Americas,
Europe, Africa and parts of Asia saw the
moon redden and fade for nearly an hour. It was the first lunar eclipse
of 2003. [full
story]
Page
1 | Page
2 | Page
3 | This is Page 4 | Page 5
Unless otherwise
stated, all images are copyrighted by the photographers.
|
|
Photographer, Location, Date |
Larger images |
Comments |
|
Cleet Carlton,
San Francisco, California, USA |
#1, #2, more |
"It was amazing
how crowded the road was with people with telescopes, cameras, and
binoculars," says Cleet Carlton,
who took these remarkable pictures of the partially eclipsed moon rising
over the Golden
Gate Bridge. |
|
|
Jesús Ojeda,
St. Francis, Wis |
#1, #2, #3 |
Photo details: Sony
DSC-F707 digital camera attached to 8" Meade LX10, ISO 100, 2 second
exposures. Two of the exposures show the occulation of the star TYC
6192-1595-1. |
|
|
John Stetson,
Falmouth, Maine, USA |
#1 |
none |
|
|
Esteban
Castro Acuña,
Departamento de Astronomia, FCFM-UANL, Mexico
|
#1 |
Don't miss this unique
poster. |
|
|
Jeff Cole,
Bloomer, Wisconsin, USA |
#1 |
J. Cole, Chippewa Valley Astronomical Society: "This
photo is an afocal JPG shot with an Olympus C-700UZ digital camera
using a home-made adapter to attach the camera to a 32 mm Televue
eyepiece. The adapter was machined from 6061T6 aluminum tubing. The
camera / eyepiece assembly was attached to a Celestron Celestar 8
SCT." |
|
|
Raúl Gavidia,
San Salvador, El Salvador |
#1 |
Raúl Gavidia took this photo using a Canon EOS
520 digital camera. In the foreground
is the national monument El Salvador del Mundo (the Savior of the
World) at the
Plaza Las Américas in San Salvador
|
|
|
Bryan Murahashi,
overlooking San Jose, California, from the Sunnyvale Baylands
trails |
#1 |
Photo details: Olympus C2100UZ with a B-300, 1.7x telephoto lens |
|
|
Lukas
Gornisiewicz,
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada |
#1 |
Clouds obscured the view of this eclipse, but 19-yr-old
Lukas captured a beautiful picture anyway. |
|
|
Mark Hoffmeyer,
Scottsdale AZ, USA |
#1 |
Photo details: Olympus C700 digital camera
set to 400ASA, F3.5, exposure 1/400 sec. |
|
|
Raquel Shida,
Sao Paulo, Brazil |
#1 |
none |
|
|
Jim Pastore,
Tucson, Arizona, USA |
#1 |
Photo details: shot using a Nextar telescope and
a Nikon 885 digital camera |
|
|
Steve Ruppa,
Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA |
#1 |
These images were taken by Steve approximately every
10 minutes using a Nikon
Coolpix 4500 coupled to a Stellarvue AT1010 refractor. |
More: from
Andrew Boyle of Orlando, Florida; from
David Darling of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin; from
Adrien Lorion of Chambly City, Québec; from
Jerry Gunnett of Kenton,Ohio; from
Didier Keus of Spa
in Belgium; from Dieter Klatt of
Oldenburg, Germany; from Drew Medlin of
Memphis, Tennessee;
|
