Mathew Gundersen monitoring the timeanddate mobile observatory in Ouarzazate, Morocco during the May 15–16 total lunar eclipse.
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The total lunar eclipse on May 15–16 was also visible across South America, and parts of Europe and Africa. The event was streamed live on timeanddate, with near-perfect weather conditions at most of our feed locations.
Our CEO Steffen Thorsen, together with Mathew Gundersen, took our mobile observatory to the edge of the Sahara desert in Ouarzazate, Morocco. They captured a spell-binding moonset toward the end of the final partial phase of the eclipse.
Mathew Gundersen monitoring the timeanddate mobile observatory in Ouarzazate, Morocco during the May 15–16 total lunar eclipse.
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Earlier in the evening, we caught moonrise from our eclipse partners in California and Arizona: Dave Decker and Gary Hawkins from the San Diego Astronomy Association; and Jim Knoll and Rick Paul of the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association.
Weather conditions in the eastern half of North America were less favorable. Our streaming partners in Ontario—Colin Durocher and Olathe Macintyre of RASC-Sudbury Centre—and Kat Troche—from the Amateur Astronomers Association in New York—battled against the clouds all night.
We also had beautiful images of the eclipse from the Southern Hemisphere: Thomas Puzia and his team from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile brought us the view from a mountaintop near Santiago in Chile.
Gustav Nødland and Andy Ardener manage the feeds coming in from around the world to our control at the timeanddate HQ in Stavanger, Norway.
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