TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE

Live from Hawaiʻi

7-8 November 2022 (HST)


An initiative to live stream the 7-8 November 2022 total lunar eclipse from the island of Hawaiʻi.

The Total Lunar Eclipse will be live-streamed from three different locations on the Island of Hawaiʻi, 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 carried out by Project PANOPTES from Mauna Loa. A highly sensitive video camera built and deployed by Christopher Chock, an Akamai Internship Program student at Subaru Telescope, will be used for the live stream.

  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 Hawaiʻi. 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.

  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.

Watch all three live streams simultaneously!

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

  • Live video feed

  • Field of View: 74×40 degrees

  • Camera: Sony α7S III

  • Lens: Sony FE 24mm f/1.4 DM

  • Tracking mount: None, No tracking

Live Sky Camera

  • Live video feed

  • Field of View: 74×40 degrees

  • Camera: Sony α7S III

  • Lens: Sony FE 24mm f/1.4 GM

  • Tracking mount: None, No tracking

Starry Knights

  • Live video feed

  • Field of View: 1.5×1.0 degree

  • Camera: ZWO ASI224MC

  • Lens: 200mm f/5.6

  • Tracking mount: Sky-Watcher HEQ5 Pro

CONTACT

info@projectpanoptes.org

helpers.starryknights@gmail.com


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