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Super Blood Moon Eclipse, Seen from Abu Dhabi
Half a dozen students on campus sacrificed their sleep hours this week to take a look at the rare super blood moon eclipse. From Abu Dhabi, observers ...
Oct 3, 2015
Half a dozen students on campus sacrificed their sleep hours this week to take a look at the rare super blood moon eclipse. From Abu Dhabi, observers could see the Earth’s shadow casted onto the disk of the moon shortly before sunrise.
Since it was just after the autumnal equinox, day and night were of nearly equal length and the moon began setting right as the sun was rising. At eclipse, the moon was almost precisely 180 from the sun.
The combination of the Earth's shadow and the descent of the moon caused changes in color as the moon became visible through the Earth’s atmosphere. Right before the total eclipse, the sun rose and the last sliver of visible moon became lost in the bright glare of daylight.
The telescope we used to photograph the moon was used as part of the core class Observing the Universe. It is a Celestron NexStar Evolution Six, a fully computerized six-inch 150mm reflecting telescope with a Canon Rebel SL1 camera attached.
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Photos taken with telescope by Mallory Roberts. Mallory Roberts is Visiting Professor of Practice of Physics at NYU Abu Dhabi. Email him at feedback@thegazelle.org.
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