Eclipse over the Acropolis and a Mystery Flash over Mauna Kea
Image Credit & Copyright: Elias Politis
The total phase of the June 15 lunar eclipse lasted an impressive 100 minutes. Its entire duration is covered in this composite of a regular sequence of digital camera exposures, tracking the dark lunar disk as it arced above the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Elias Politis titled this eclipse duration study and the accompanying youtub e timelapse video "Acropoclipse".
via apod.nasa.gov
Can you help identify this phenomena? The below video shows a flash of currently unknown origin observed at Mauna Kea Observatory the morning of 2011 March 22.See also another video.