The Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse

The Sundance Observatory (SDO) created a sequence of photographs of the recent lunar eclipse, which just occured on December 21, 2010. Of course, December 21 was the winter solstice and a lunar eclipse on the winter solstice last happened in 1648. It is truly a rare event.

The photo sequence was produced by the SDO Celestron Onyx 80 mm fluorite refractor telescope in combination with the SDO Canon 50D camera. The shooting sequence was automated to take a picture every two minutes, however, due to the light to moderate cloud cover, selected images were chosen to make up the sequence. The slideshow sequence can be seen by clicking on the moon's image above.

Current Topics of Interest or New Items:

1. See Creating Earth: Creating Earth from NASA data and imagery (Feb 03, 2012)
2. See New Database Access: weather database access is provided (Sept 11, 2011)
3. See 12 Month Weather: archive at the observatory (July 17, 2011)
4. See Three Month Weather: archive at the observatory (June 19, 2011)
5. See Sun Produces Major Solar Flare (June 7, 2011)
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7. See 2010 Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse pictures taken at SDO (Dec. 21, 2010)
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Observatory or Onsite School Events:

1. Grace Academy, Georgetown TX, Status: Being rescheduled