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Blood moon eclipse

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Cherrytree59 Fri 27-Jul-18 17:23:59

People lucky enough to have a clear sky this evening (between
7.30 and 9 pm) will hopfully be able to view a Blood Moon Eclipse
We have had a hot sunny afternoon but now the clouds are looming
over headsad

PamelaJ1 Fri 27-Jul-18 21:51:49

Well we are having a typhoon in Norfolk, amazing sky’s.
No chance of seeing a moon though.
We may need an ark.

BlueBelle Fri 27-Jul-18 21:54:00

No moon, no rain for us on east coast

PECS Fri 27-Jul-18 21:59:46

Just driven to top of local hill with some friends but clouds too heavy with no breaks.. not even a hint of a moon here...but deliciously cool and fresh!

Blinko Fri 27-Jul-18 22:00:41

Cooler and fresher here in the Midlands, but still dry as a bone...

MawBroon Fri 27-Jul-18 22:01:41

Typical - no moon!

Doodle Fri 27-Jul-18 22:14:26

No moon here either just cloud cover.

Jalima1108 Fri 27-Jul-18 22:20:54

Cloudy here too.

tanith Fri 27-Jul-18 22:26:56

No moon here how bloody annoying?

Cherrytree59 Fri 27-Jul-18 22:58:30

No moon.
Went for a walk, no hills but on to open fields hoping for a glimpse.
A few minutes ago clouds parted to show a little bit of the moon, but the Sun had gone down so just moon white.
There a some lovely red moon pictures on the net, Turkey had a big red moonenvy

PECS Fri 27-Jul-18 23:01:10

The moon is there! It is the clouds that are in the way #bloodypedant

MissAdventure Fri 27-Jul-18 23:03:15

Well, a tiny tiddle of rain, still boiling hot, and no moon.. bah!

grannysyb Fri 27-Jul-18 23:36:44

Saw it here in the Algarve, a bit disappointing rather small but Mars down below and to the right very bright. We've been having lovely clear skies here, and much cooler weather then London a mere 28!

harrigran Fri 27-Jul-18 23:48:06

It was pitch black here at 8pm and then we had the most horrendous storm, no chance of seeing a moon tonight.
I felt sorry for the crowds on our seafront waiting for the firework display they must have felt the full force of the storm.

MiniMoon Fri 27-Jul-18 23:50:44

Thunderstorm here, overcast all night so no monitor us to see. DVD waited up, just in case, but we were disappointed.

MiniMoon Fri 27-Jul-18 23:51:24

Monitor!!! Moon for.

MiniMoon Fri 27-Jul-18 23:52:07

What's going on DGS not dvd.

phoenix Fri 27-Jul-18 23:52:30

It was too cloudy here in North Devon sad

Anniebach Sat 28-Jul-18 08:46:45

Where I live we have a dark sky place. I was so down this week because I couldn’t go to the usual spot in the mountains where star gazers gather. So much cloud last night no one saw it, lesson to be learned for me ?

Greyduster Sat 28-Jul-18 09:34:24

Oddly enough it was overcast most of last night, but there was a break in the clouds around ten o’clock and we managed to see about half the moon in shadow before clouds came back and blanked it out. I don’t call that a result, but it was better than nothing!

BlueBelle Sat 28-Jul-18 10:19:38

We have had our first rain about half an inch in the bucket outside my back door Sky now blue with some clouds and a bit of a cooler wind more like our normal summers day Hopefully the warm weather should be back mid next
week

goldengirl Sat 28-Jul-18 11:58:29

No moon sadly last night but a goodly amount of rain and terrific thunder claps. Still the plants and garden critters will have benefited.

JackyB Sat 28-Jul-18 11:59:54

We had a beautiful view of the blood moon and the eclipse here in Central Europe. It was still really hot at 11 pm and we just sat in the garden and watched. No point in taking photos - we tried, but they didn't turn out any good.

We have been really lucky - the cloud that you lot had in the UK last night has now come and cooled down our morning with light breezes and fantastic respite from the sun. (Mind you our max temps have been higher than in the UK this week)

The moon hid behind some trees and we were worried we wouldn't be able to see it, then it appeared, all red, when the shadow was just passing across it - a tiny crescent of the unshaded part was just appearing in the top left-hand corner. It was between the tips of 2 tall pine trees, when seen from our garden, and Mars was a red dot just in the bottom of the "V" between the two trees.

There are some breathtaking pics on the internet, starting with the BBC site.

www.bbc.com/news/world-44985262

watermeadow Sat 28-Jul-18 20:59:54

When any astronomical event is forecast it is ALWAYS cloudy.
My ancestor sailed to Australia to view the Transit of Venus in 18something and it rained.

Mapleleaf Sat 28-Jul-18 21:58:22

Isn't it such a shame? We've had all this glorious weather, with clear evening skies, yet as soon as this eclipse event arrives, our skies are overcast and stormy - such a disappointment!

JackyB Sun 29-Jul-18 09:09:23

Not always, not here, watermeadow, we had a clear view of the solar eclipse in 1999 from our garden! At the office where I worked at the time, 25 km away, they had clouds, however, spoiling the view. Some colleagues had come over specially from the UK to see it - they would have seen just as much if they'd gone to Cornwall!