January 31, 2018 ALP Total
Lunar Eclipse Observation Report
by James
Kevin Ty
Images by James Kevin Ty, Kendrick Cole KC Ty, Adi
Bontuyan , Jennifer Gutierrez and Carlo Caparas
Last January 31, Astronomical League of the
Philippines (ALP) held its free public
observation session on the Total Lunar Eclipse /
SuperMoon / Blue Moon at SM By The Bay at SM Mall of
Asia , Pasay City. Members who were present are ALP
President James Kevin Ty and son Kendrick Cole KC Ty ;
Treasurer Andrew Ian Chan , Secretary Justine Garcia ,
Auditor Edgar Ang ; Adi Bontuyan, Mark Ian Singson
, Michella Esparas, Edwin Gatia, Berenice Viola Chan,
Sandra Go, Per Edman and guest Jennifer Gutierrez.
They started at around 6:30pm
with ABS CBN TV Patrol lead by Kim Atienza covering the
first part of the eclipse event. James brought along his
Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 IS L lens mounted on Kenko
Sky Memo-R star Tracker ; Kendrick with his Canon EOS
400D with EFS 55-250mm lens on Nexstar mount ; Andrew
with his Skywatcher 80ED refractor on Vixen GP mount ;
Edgar with his Celestron Nexstar 90 refractor ; Adi with
his Celestron C114 Newtonian reflector on EQ2 mount ;
Mark with his Celestron C90 on sturdy tripod ; Per with
his Orion XT6 Dobsonian reflector as well as ST80
refractor on sturdy tripod.
Eclipse started at around 6:50pm PST (Philippine
Standard Time) when the Moon enter the Earth's light
shadow (penumbra). Partial eclipse started at around
7:48pm and enters totality at around 8:51pm. Maximum
totality occurred at around 9:30pm when the Moon
is roughly about 51 degrees above the eastern horizon.
During totality, the eclipsed Moon showed a light orange
shade as it crossed halfway south of Earth's dark shadow
(Umbra) at maximum totality. Totality lasted about 77
minutes, while the whole partial phase lasts about 3.5
hours more or less. Totality ends at around
10:08pm an partial phases will continue till around
11:12pm before the Moon totally exits the Earth's light
shadow by 12:10am the next day signaling the end of the
eclipse.
More than 3500+ people got to
view the eclipse in its entirely as it is almost clear
night except prior to the start of Penumbral stage.
They waited till Penumbra ends
at around 12:10am before packing up and heading home. A
very successful event indeed!!!
Group Shot
Group Shot
For member's eclipse images ,
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