Lunar eclipse
 

A good photo opportunity tomorrow(sat) night around 8pm with a lunar eclipse,which i believe makes the moon appear reddish,I am certainly gonna have a go,and I`ll post my results.

Hi somert8,

Welcome to the forum.

You may not have found it yet, but there is a massive thread on Photographing the Moon which can be found in the General Photography Technique section. (Sorry I don't know how to make a link to that) Photographing the Lunar eclipse has been discussed there. Good luck with your attempt and let's hope for clear skies.

Dave

Thanks for that Dave will have a look,I had a quick look to see if there were any post on the eclipse so I hope I haven't posted the same topic.

That's not a problem. I look forward to seeing your images.

Dave

When is something supposed to happen I can't see anything different yet.

Well saphire,I started taking pics about 7pmwhen cloud cover let me ,and stopped around 9pm,maybe it turns red later?

http://www.worldphotographyforum.com...00&ppuser=2183

I have a couple like that but looks no different than normal.

Well its looking good but I dont think the colour will start to change before 9:30pm. Well thats what the guru tells me. :)

It looks lots better than this pic through a scope but it is very bright. Stevie is holding a red filter over the eyepiece to pick out details she has not seen before. :rolleyes:

Latest info shadow is now appearing at the bottom.

Bye for now.

Don

I can see it starting to darken

Just taken this one something is happening at last.

Nice one Christine.

As they say better late than never. Stevie just found this link http://www.universetoday.com/wp-cont...228eclipse.jpg :) :)

Don

That has me confused, have they got the times the wrong way round.

The red colour should be best during totality - between about 10:45pm and midnight - but will start to become noticeable as it gets more and more eclipsed

Just taken this at 22.17

I am finding as the moon has got darker and having to give slower and slower shutter speed I can't get a clear image.

Taken at 1600 ISO 5.6 0.80s

taken at 400 ISO f6.3 2 seconds


I am interested in what the 2 bright spots are.

Anything over 1 sec and you get movement of the moon, so it's not easy

Great images guys.

I am out of it now as the X is not noise friendly at high ISO, so I am on 105mm f2.5 as my fastest long lens. :rolleyes:

Nowhere near what you are doing but I'll put it up anyway.

Don

Rob, The bright spots are star trails as you track the moon. Amazed at a 2 sec exposure.

Don

Great shots,well done.

One taken just before total eclipse

400 ISO f8 1.3 sec

After a while I took my last good AF and then switched lens to manual to prevent it from hunting all over the place. I was surprised that you could get a light reading from the moon. At one point I had f8 @ 20 seconds but too much movement.

Nothing in our solar system then Don ?

I can't wait to see what Dave Smith managed tonight.

Well done on the tracking front Rob. I did not think of going as low as a second to make up for f5.6 lens and poor high noise performance. So I gave it a go and here is the result.

ISO640 1 sec at f5.6

Don

Sorry Rob, you will have to wait for the next total eclipse before I can oblige. It was a total disaster for me, which started two days ago when I realised that I had booked to go to the theatre. Well never mind I thought, I should still get back before totality starts. Well the play went on longer and so by the time I got home totality was well underway. In my panic to get set up two things happened, somehow the iso setting on my camera had changed to 1600 and so with the long exposures the noise or grainyness was unacceptable and to cap that because I was in a semi-panic the focus wasn't that good. Also I was using a driven mount and forgot to line up with the pole star, and then set the altitude angle incorrectly. The images looked fine on the camera but when I came in and put them on the computer the disaster made itself known. When will I learn to take things methodically and calmly!

Well I have learned a few lessons tonight.

I am however very pleased to see so many of you having a go and with success. Brilliant, well done. I will now climb back in my hole.

Dave

This is probably my best shot after noise reduction in photoshop. The tracking error is evident in the two stars

Thats really bad luck Dave, I am so sorry for you.

I was only saved by Robs tracking post. I tried HI-1 which gave pretty grim results so was just going to settle with the small red dot that the 105 gave me.

We both really enjoyed the views through the scope which was much clearer than the pic.

So well done for keeping us advised of the event, and better luck with the next event whatever that may be.

Don

Well thats a pretty fair shot. :)

Don

C'est La Vie Dave

I tried again later on last night around 11pm,and I noticed a big reduction in brightness but a lovely colour.It was well worth the wait with a very low keeper rate,and a lot of trial and error with shutter,iso and exposure.
http://www.worldphotographyforum.com...118redmoon.jpg

I was doing test exposures on and old 128mb card and viewing on the pc. Main pics were then taken using my microdrive. I have yet to download that lot to the pc.

I think I need another spare larger capacity card. Each compressed NEF is around 11mb. :D :rolleyes:

Don