More Than Half a Million Viewers Follow Lunar Eclipse Livestream

The Media and Information department broadcast the lunar eclipse live from the top of the Feldberg. Between 7 pm and 1:30 am, more than 500,000 viewers called up the livestream on YouTube.


The longest lunar eclipse of the 21st century, on 27-28 July, offered a spectacular sight. The moon completely immersed into the Earth's umbra for 103 minutes and appeared as a reddish disc in the night sky.

The weather didn't play along for a while, but most of the time the Moon was visible. For the first time, the University streamed in Ultra HD, a format which corresponds to four times the HDTV resolution and requires both special interface cards and high computing power. Apparently, this was a unique selling point of all lunar eclipse broadcasts on YouTube. We certainly hope our viewers were over the moon!