The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't watch it for "who it is", but the story... and I automatically am not excited to watch certain subjects. Some are just boring ... because of the way it's told and sometimes they labour on and on over the same old ground.

Put it this way........ I don't mind nails down blackboards, but if I did, Boy George would be the equivalent.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

That's what you get with "journalists" these days. Don't know night from day, up from down, sun from moon .... or Arris from Elbow.

Damn right

Why from 7.30pm? I thought it didn't happen until 1am ... or do you plan to do 5 hours of drinking and eating pies first?

Moonrise is at 21:14, full moon at 21:20, sunset at 21:21.Totality is from 20:30 to 22:15.

There will undoubtedly be some discussion about where to go to try and get it. Some people have suggested one place, I'm suggesting two alternatives.

They, I'm told, suggest their place because there would be less light pollution - but we'll have the afterglow from the sun for the best part of an hour so I don't think light pollution (especially in a rural area) is likely to be a problem.

Their suggestion involved shooting across a not very inspiring bit of land, whereas mine is to shot across the Duddon estuary - which with the tide being about halfway in could offer us a reflection opportunity.

I suspect they said that they want to avoid light pollution so they can get the moon on its own, to which my argument (granted I'm a landscape 'tog by preference) is that you need other "stuff" in shot so it's clear that it was a blood moon and not any old moon on which you got the colour balance wrong

I've been to all three places today and rattled off some quick piccies, onto which I've overlaid roughly where the moon will be, so that should help with the decision. Mind you, the forecast isn't good so that may trump any decision.

chris_m

Jackmydad wrote: »

I take it we was talking (in the article about the lunar eclipse) about the fact that the moon don't make crepuscular rays, the way what the sun in the pic is doing?

Nowt to do with the stock pic they used.
Think about it, how is it possible to get a Blood Moon AND a solar eclipse at the same time with only the three celestial bodies?

PasturesNew

Jackmydad wrote: »

.... moon don't make crepuscular rays, the way what the sun in the pic is doing....

Obviously this was the first thought of us all, instantly. Obvious.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Obviously this was the first thought of us all, instantly. Obvious.

It wasn't my first thought I can assure you
I didn't even consider the pic they used, just the erroneous text.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

Moonrise is at 21:14, full moon at 21:20, sunset at 21:21.Totality is from 20:30 to 22:15.

There will undoubtedly be some discussion about where to go to try and get it. Some people have suggested one place, I'm suggesting two alternatives.

They, I'm told, suggest their place because there would be less light pollution - but we'll have the afterglow from the sun for the best part of an hour so I don't think light pollution (especially in a rural area) is likely to be a problem.

Their suggestion involved shooting across a not very inspiring bit of land, whereas mine is to shot across the Duddon estuary - which with the tide being about halfway in could offer us a reflection opportunity.

I suspect they said that they want to avoid light pollution so they can get the moon on its own, to which my argument (granted I'm a landscape 'tog by preference) is that you need other stuff" in shot so it's clear that it was a blood moon and not any old moon on which you got the colour balance wrong

I've been to all three places today and rattled off some quick piccies, onto which I've overlaid roughly where the moon will be, so that should help with the decision. Mind you, the forecast isn't good so that may trump any decision.

Yes, it's not easy is it - some hone the skill over years getting "moon on top of XYZ building", or "moon behind XYZ building".

I don't even know which way to look .... I thought I'd look up on the night and see where the moon is

Out the back, East facing, I've got "a big sky" going from North-East-South. If it's the other way, I generally can't see anything as there are big buildings over the road.... and I CBA to go running down the road in the dark to look.

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Nowt to do with the stock pic they used.
Think about it, how is it possible to get a Blood Moon AND a solar eclipse at the same time with only the three celestial bodies?

Oh, I expect Mars will come trotting round from the other side and oblige.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

It wasn't my first thought I can assure you
I didn't even consider the pic they used, just the erroneous text.

Well, my post was a joke... never heard that big word Jack used, to be honest

Yes, the text error, hence my "moon from sun" before Arris/Elbow.

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, it's not easy is it - some hone the skill over years getting "moon on top of XYZ building", or "moon behind XYZ building".

Well, one of my suggestions does happen to feature an old lighthouse which one could use to add interest

I don't even know which way to look ....

It'll rise on a bearing of approx 124 degrees magnetic

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Oh, I expect Mars will come trotting round from the other side and oblige.

I take it that was meant to be a joke - in which case it's fallen a bit flat.

Mars, I'm told, will be to the lower right of the moon at around 22:00-22:15 - the brightest and closest it's been for 15 years