Mars Opposition & Total Mooneclipse

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Jul 29

2018

by Johannes Stübler

On July 27 2018 we had a public viewing event at our local observatory.

It was a thrilling event, because at the beginning many clouds in southeast blocked the view. But "hope dies last" and the sky cleared more and more.

About 1000 people visited our small observatory. Of course we had some portable scopes to offer a view to the moon and the red planet.

Before and in between we could offer Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. Mars was not so pretty because at our latitude he is very low and the seeing is bad. However everybody was happy and the main attraction have been the red twins "Bloodmoon" & Mars.

At the same time at our observatory outpost in the Upper Austrian Pre-Alps STAR PARK HOHE DIRN a group of us - I had the pleasure to be one of them ;-)   - and about 100 visitors shared with us the following great magic view: Two red balls in front of the stars and besides the summer milkyway.

More of these great milkyway-eclipse-pictures you can find at our AWB-affiliate's website STERNFREUNDE STEYR

Best regards

Joe