A fantastic evening in the warmth of my small setting room to end the old year and see in the new one watching this one with mounted filtered Russian 20x60 binoculars out of the double glazed window with the radio switched on and listening into the new year radio 5 live babble etc.
Moonrise from my neck of the woods was at 15.24 U.T and didn't become visible until around 17.00 U.T from behind many dark protruding clouds-after the first Penumbral contact at 17.15 U.T and Astronomical twilight coming to an end the Moon looked as if it had taken on a kind of Moustache effect with the unaided eye although it didn't show up much in Binoculars apart from its South Western Limb which was slightly darkened-by then the outside temperature was down to around 4 degrees centigrade.
The Umbral contact at 18.51 U.T started to show as well on its South Western Limb and almost making it up onto the curvature of the Lunar disc as far as the large Crater Tyco which was outstandingly clear around maximum at 19.22 U.T although intermittent ice and hail showers in between making it difficult to see for a while-see the Umbral shadow slowly disappear off the Lunar disc at 19.53 U.T with variable cloud obscuring and only getting glimpses as well as totally clouded out until the Moon re-appeared from Penumbral at 21.30 U.T of which was also covered in cloud and a pea sized hailstorm coming down-certainly looked exceptionally bright at 22.00 U.T when it re-appeared from the cloudy skies to see in the new year-have a good one....
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Good Clear Skies
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Astrocomet
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Colin James Watling
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Real Astronomer and head of the Comet section for LYRA (Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth Regional Astronomers) also head of K.A.G (Kessingland Astronomy Group) and Navigator (Astrogator) of the Stars (Fieldwork)
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