Aug 28 is total lunar eclipse and i want to take pictures. Where is a good place where there are less city lights and it is safe too.

 

You post a post on August 30th asking about where to take pictures on August 28th? I don't get it?

 

It's only July...

 

Lol!!!!! Hilarious!!!!

 

Totally funny, it really made me think did i loose 1 month from my life?

 

i took these pictures like 6 years ago



there are area's east of livermore/east of the lab that are very dark.
this is the spot i went http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=e...5269&z=14&om=1

but you can go further down the roads a bit to patterson pass, and goto the place where they call it the "windy spot" at the top of the hill before it starts going downhill. there is a spot to pull over and park, but it's pretty windy up there
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=e...0538&z=13&om=1


there is also a meteor shower the 13th with about 100 or more an hour http://www.space.com/spacewatch/mete...wers_2007.html

 

quoted before the ninja-edit!

 

Mt. Diablo. . . Many parts of the North Bay.

 

if i end up going, it will be up sierra in san jose probably.

 

I was going to say- Mt Hamilton, or points east of there, but it depends a lot on what the marine layer is doing that evening.

 

You're above the marine layer when you're at the observatory.

 

 

Yes, but if the clouds prefer to form a high overcast you're screwed there too.

I think out farther on San Antonio/mines is going to be less crowded and if the weathers nice, it might be better farther out, but the observatory is certainly a good place to start from.

 

lol wow...I'm trippin haha

I was so confused as to what the threadstarter meant wtffff

 

I'll be up at Lick around 3am, on to some other insane hour of the morning.