Lunar Eclipse March 3rd

The clouds cleared just in time on the evening of Saturday, March 3rd.

One of the best eclipses for many years began at approximately 21:30 and continued until well after midnight, with the Moon turning a deep coppery colour.


Image: Alan Cayless


This sequence by Alex Houston shows the Moon entering eclipse.

For further details, see Spaceweather.com and the NASA Eclipse site

Grazing Occultation of Saturn

This was the scene just before 02:30 in the small hours of Friday morning, 2nd March 2007:



Over the next few minutes, Saturn gradually disappeared behind the southern limb of the Moon, to reappear between 02:44 and 02:47.

More details here: grazing occultation of Saturn.

For further details, see the SPA Occultations Section