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:
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.
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.
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
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.
Live Stream Set-Up
Project PANOPTES
Timelapse of stacked HDR images
Field of View: 15Γ10 degrees
Camera: Canon EOS 2000D
Lens: 85mm f/1.4
Tracking mount: iOptron CEM40
Live Sky Camera
Live video feed
Field of View: 74Γ40 degrees
Camera:
Lens:
Tracking mount: None, No tracking
Starry Knights
Live video feed
Field of View: 1.5Γ1.0 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
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