Total Lunar Eclipse - August 28, 2007

Photos here show the lunar eclipse of August 28, 2007, at approximately five-minute intervals. Photos were digiscoped in Ann Arbor, Michigan USA at latitude 42.30 deg N, longitude 83.77 deg W. Local time of sunrise was 6:56am EDT; local time of moonset was 6:59am EDT. The camera, a Nikon Coolpix 4800, was hand held against the 20-60X zoom eyepiece of a spotting scope normally used for birding, my Bausch & Lomb Elite 80 ED. Magnification for all photos was 60 power.

Eclipse event times for the morning of August 28, 2007, are shown in the table below. See lunar eclipse details and illustrations at the following web sites:

http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/LEprimer.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_eclipse
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html

Eclipse event UT EDT CDT MDT PDT

Penumbra first contact 07:52:11 3:52am 2:52am 1:52am 12:52am Penumbra first visible? 08:20 4:20am 3:20am 2:20am 1:20am Partial eclipse begins 08:50:57 4:51am 3:51am 2:51am 1:51am Total eclipse begins 09:52:00 5:52am 4:52am 3:52am 2:52am Mid-eclipse 10:37:23 6:37am 5:37am 4:37am 3:37am Total eclipse ends 11:22:45 -- 6:23am 5:23am 4:23am Partial eclipse ends 12:23:50 -- -- 6:24am 5:24am Penumbra last visible? 12:55 -- -- -- 5:55am Penumbra last contact 13:22:29 -- -- -- --

UT = Universal Time

10:50pm EDT 4:47am EDT 4:53am EDT 4:57am EDT 5:01am EDT 5:07am EDT 5:12am EDT
5:17am EDT 5:21am EDT 5:25am EDT 5:31am EDT 5:35am EDT 5:43am EDT 5:48am EDT
5:49am EDT 5:52am EDT 5:57am EDT 6:03am EDT 6:07am EDT 6:10am EDT 6:17am EDT