Animation of the Partial Lunar Eclipse of 2005 October 17

Theodore Lunar Observatory


The 1.6 Mb animation below was generated from a series of 63 images taken with my Panasonic Digital Video camera mounted on my Meade alt-az telescope. Each image was exposed at 1/1000 sec at f/8 with a magnification limited to only 33 times. The tracking could have been better as the images did move around quite a bit - I have improved this here.

Several images were filtered to show the threshold level of the umbra near fourth contact, this appeared to occur around 93 seconds earlier than predicted, this is in agreement with that computed by my "Improved Lunar Eclipse Ephemeris" (or ILEE).



Prepared by the Theodore Lunar Observatory Australia - 2005 November 16