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Partial Lunar Eclipse rising on the Gold Coast in QLD 14th March 2025

3/14/2025

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​Woohoo!
After all the shocking weather with Cyclone Alfred we managed to have a beautiful clear evening for the partial lunar eclipse here on the Gold Coast in QLD Australia on the evening of the 14th March 2025.
 
I’ve viewed many lunar eclipses but this is the first time I’ve seen one in eclipse as it rises in the eastern sky, I wasn’t sure where it was going to come up and I got so excited when I saw it above the rooftops of the houses :-D
 
I couldn’t use my telescope because the eclipsed Moon was so low in the sky, so I used my trustee Canon 70D with Tamron 18-400mm lens with 2x teleconverter making a focal length of 1280mm.
​Camera setup was on a static camera tripod.
 
Ten to fifteen images were captured of each phase then stacked in RegiStak6 and processed in PS.
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~ Our Sun today on 14th March 2025 with lots of Sunspots ~

3/14/2025

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~ Our Sun today on 14th March 2025 with lots of Sunspots ~

We had a lovely clear day today; this was after all the shocking weather with Cyclone Alfred, so out came my little Seestar S50 telescope to take a picture of the Sun ;-D
 
Tonight we are going to be blessed with a partial lunar eclipse just after the Sun has set its going to be exciting to see what it looks like rising low in the Eastern sky already eclipsed…I hope it stays clears!
 
Twenty images were captured, then stacked in RegiStax6 and processed in PS.
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~ Cyclone Alfred bears down on QLD coast 7th & 8th March 2025 ~

3/8/2025

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We had been watching this cyclone for the past week as it travelled out at sea off the coast of Queensland as a Category 2 cyclone! Then on the 7th of March, Cyclone Alfred turned toward the coastline near the Gold Coast. We were right in the firing line, with the southern trailing arms of the storm producing winds at over 130km hour, it hit our coastline during the night of the 8th, the house was shaking and the wind sounded like a freight train! Oh My!!!
 
The last time the Gold Coast got a direct hit from a cyclone was over fifty years ago so we were very lucky indeed that it crossed just north of us near Morton Island and was downgraded to a Category 1 as it crossed over the islands to the north of us…Wow the power of nature, it’s so mighty :-o
 
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Credit: Screenshot 6pm 9 News 7th March 2025 ~
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