Last night, amid a very bad prospect of seeing the Penumbral Lunar eclipse because of thick clouds , members of the Astronomical League of the Philippines as well as Astro students of the Rizal Technological University were at PAGASA Observatory in UP-Diliman to observe and image the event. Although this eclipse is penumbral meaning the Moon enters only the light shadow or penumbra portion of the Earth's shadow. The slight shading was obvious beause of the almost 92% immersion. Nevertheless, I was able to use my modest setup of TV-101 refractor with 300D DSLR at prime focus to image a few shots through opening s in the thick clouds that hamper the night's observation. We were not able to observe the entry of the Mon to the penumbral shadow at 8:36pm PST. It was only around 9:45pm hat some breaks in the clouds give us the opportunity to image the Moon . Below are the images that I took along the duration of the eclipse.
9:46pm PST
10:15pm PST
11:11pm PST
11:38pm PST More images will be uploaded in the ALP webpage at http://www.astroleaguephils.org in a day or two.
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