PARTIAL LUNAR ECLIPSE

Live from HawaiΚ»i

19 November 2021 (UTC)


An initiative to live stream the 19 November 2021 partial lunar eclipse from the island of HawaiΚ»i.


The Partial Lunar Eclipse will be live-streamed from three different locations on the Island of HawaiΚ»i, with three different types of equipment. Each live stream will have a different but complementary field of view and will be carried out by three different groups:

  1. One of the live streams will be done using a PANOPTES robot at Mauna Loa. Project PANOPTES is a citizen science project which aims to build a worldwide network of small robotic observatories to detect exoplanet transits. The PANOPTES robot will capture the eclipse using a DSLR camera and a medium telephoto lens with a field of view of 10x15 degrees. This field of view will cover the moon and one of the most beautiful deep sky objects the Pleiades cluster.

  2. Another live stream is planned by the group 'Starry Knights' (a team of two postdocs from Subaru telescope and Keck telescope) at Waimea, a city in the northern part of HawaiΚ»i. They will live stream a video feed of the eclipse using a long telephoto lens with a field of view that only shows the Moon in closeup. The Moon's position in the night sky will be tracked with an astronomy mount over the duration of the eclipse.

  3. The Subaru-Asahi Star Camera (at Maunakea) will play a unique role in this network of live streams by relaying the ever-changing starry sky and ground scenery caused by the lunar eclipse rather than the moon itself. Japan's Subaru Telescope will be deployed as the ground scenery.

Watch the live stream here!

Live from Mauna Loa

Project PANOPTES

Live from Maunakea

Live Sky Camera

Live from Waimea

Starry Knights

Live Stream Partners

Project PANOPTES

A citizen science project that aims to make it easy for anyone to build a low-cost, robotic telescope that can be used to detect transiting exoplanets. The PANOPTES community spans the world, with founding members in Hawai'i.

Live Sky Camera

A collaborative project between Asahi Shimbun (a Japanese newspaper) and Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, to show the beautiful night sky over Maunakea to children and the public interested in astronomy.

Starry Knights

An initiative by two astronomers to take astronomy to the public and spark an interest in stargazing. An attempt to bridge societal differences with our cosmic similarities and to tackle ignorance with science.

Live Stream Set-Up

Project PANOPTES

  • Timelapse of stacked HDR images

  • Field of View: 15Γ—10 degrees

  • Camera: Canon EOS 2000D

  • Lens: 85mm f/1.4

  • Tracking mount: iOptron CEM40

Live Sky Camera

  • Live video feed

  • Field of View: 74Γ—40 degrees

  • Camera:

  • Lens:

  • Tracking mount: None, No tracking

Starry Knights

  • Live video feed

  • Field of View: 1.5Γ—1.0 degree

  • Camera: ZWO ASI224MC

  • Lens: 200mm f/5.6

  • Tracking mount: Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro

Simulated Field of View

Project PANOPTES

Live Sky Camera

Starry Knights


CONTACT

info@projectpanoptes.org



IMAGE CREDITS

Lunar eclipse 2018-07-27, by H. Raab

Total eclipse of the Moon, by Daniele57C

Total Eclipse of Moon on July 27, 2018, by Giuseppe Donatiello