Since last one year i have been following celestial events.The discussions around 2012 mayan calendar end and events like Super moon in march created an interest in me.When i read an artical in TOI on june 6th on coming total lunar eclips on june 15th i made up my mind to buy a telescope.I have bought Space Probe 114 mm telescope from gnomon company on june 14th .It costed me 12.5k.I got a demo on telescope usage and a CD having information about sky.I also got a one year membership in amateur astronomer india club.Last night by 10:50 i started setting up the telescope for a view of moon and by 11:30 i am ready with setup.Moon looked like a solid white ash sphere and shining.It's a memorable view.I first used 25 mm eye piece and able to see full spherical moon.With 10 mm eye piece i am able to zoom into the craters of moon and now i am probing it's surface and felt part of moon is dim in light i thought for a while and realized it's because of lunar eclipse and remembered the reason why i am there ;).Moon is getting covered by spherical shadow gradually and at one point fully shadowed. Moon is looking like an orange spherical ball and looked the same way how sun looks at sunset.I felt lucky watching this as sky is clear.This orange ball too disappeared and there is no moon now in the sky for some time and gradually the old white spherical white ash ball is back shining as maximum it could.The total duration it lasted for is around an hour and half.
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