Today, I have received some more positive feedback about the transmission of the recent total lunar eclipse.

Stan and Holly write:

Wow! What sterling photos! Thanks ever so much for sharing them. Will you be making higher resolution photos available later?

Mary writes:

Shevill, thanks for all the info. It was great to watch it on the screen as we could not see any sign of the moon outside due to all the cloud.

Paul H. Guttman, M.D. writes:

Outstanding images of your observatory. Hope the moon dog doesn’t mean an approaching cloud front for this small hour eclipse. I got up at 2:00 am and viewed a perfect total at 39.52 N. I was not the astrophotographer at this hour as I have been pounded with my teaching schedule. Visual only. I will leave it to you to get the prize winner pictures!

Laurie writes:

There is no doubt that your live feed was of the highest technical quality, experience sure pays! had all three feeds going at once on my computer and so was able to compare them all. It was interesting to see the screen display as one of them made adjustments to his camera from time to time, and the other feed (the Talbot Observatory) “dropped-out” occasionally. A good job, indeed! I was in and out of the house watching the event in the old-fashioned way as well as the high-tech way.

John writes:

Great work Shevill. Your images looked really good. I went up to Canopus tonight and it was really windy and unpleasant outside.

Tim writes:

Well, typically for us, there’s one big cloud in the sky - just one cloud in the whole sky - and it is exactly where the moon should be. These three city blocks must be the only place in the state where you can’t see the moon tonight. Just my luck, right? We’re still waiting for it to clear. But thanks a lot for talking to me tonight. And it would be much appreciated if you could send us a couple of your own photos of the moon at totality. We’ll give you the photo credit, of course! Thanks again. Hope you enjoyed the night.

Stephan Heinsius writes:

Today’s total lunar eclipse, not directly visible within European countries, could be observed here in central Europe via your webcast on the AU discovery channel website. Thanks for providing us this great event from Australia! I watched this on early afternoon with ending totality and the second partial phase. A wonderful feeling to see it from the other side of our planet.

Anonymous writes:

That is a beautiful photo Shevill and thanks mate, it was one of the best web casts I have seen.

Jess Tyler from SciBiz Media writes:

It was wonderful watching the eclipse. I had a nice chardonnay, daughter on lap, pleasant evening for all. Congratulations.

Richard writes:

Nothing but cloud here and it seems to be getting worse. Kieran got a quick glimpse about 20 minutes ago but the cloud just seemed to clump together and hide it again. I have been watching your broadcast - it’s very impressive. Thanks for taking the time to set it up. Enjoy the rest of the show. I think I might go to bed.

Babak writes:

Very glad to hear from you. I hope you will be fortunate with clear skies on the night of TLE. This one won’t be observable from Iran, so I would love to watch it through your live webcast too.

Finally, below is a clipping that Shevill Mathers sent me. It is from the August 29, 2007 edition of the Hobart Mercury Newspaper (click to enlarge).

We thank Shevill Mathers for his ongoing support and use of The Imaging Source astronomy cameras.

We have been reporting on the total lunar eclipse for several days now (here, here and here). Shevill Mathers wrote to us again today, to let us know that he participated in a radio show to talk about the filming of the eclipse for Discovery Science Channel TV.

His appearance was on Starlight Zone (2NUR) with Col Maybury at The University of Newcastle, Australia.

You can download the show as an MP3 file.

Following the recent total lunar eclipse in Australia, which was captured by Shevill Mathers, using The Imaging Source astronomy camera DFK 41AF02.AS, several news sources have published reports on the event.

In their article Australians ‘Over The Moon’ about Lunar Eclipse, The Westender writes:

Dave Reneke, news editor for Australia’s most popular astronomy magazine, Sky and Space, said he was thrilled with the feedback he’s been getting. “People were, pardon the pun ‘over the moon’ about what they saw. We’ve received dozens of good quality photographs at our office and we’ll be printing some of these in our next issue,” he said.

Similarly, in their article A darker side of the moon, The Australian writes:

It was big, it was red, it was beautiful and everyone across Australia had a view of last night’s total eclipse of the moon

Niall Seewang, writing for The Border Mail, simply calls the event spectacular, and Fiona Poole describes how,

[...] during ancient times, the people of the Philippines believed that a great and powerful dragon known as the Bakunawa would rise from the ocean and eat the moon bite by bite.

Shevill Mathers has also placed online a scan of an article that appeared in his local newspaper Mercury. The photo that was published clearly shows the DFK 41AF02.AS. Furthermore, his photo album contains a large number of images that show the various stages of the eclipse.