Aug. 28, 2007: Lunar Eclipse

[ejicon]

I've been poking my head in and out of the Astronomy & Celestial forum for months now and first off have to say that you guy produce some amazing work. I'm very interested in the night sky but can only dream about owning the equipment that is needed to capture what is up there. Last year, I had the opportunity to snap a few shots of the Total Lunar Eclipse. I'm sure many posts have been made, but I just wanted to share my perspective of it. Hope you guys enjoy it and thanks for the world of inspiration. Hopefully I'll have more to post in the future once I learn a thing or two. :)
-Ells

Shot with a Tamron 28-300 F6.3 @ 1/320 sec each
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b264/eworth/blog/9bfdd4df.jpg

[Adrena1in]

Interesting perspective...I'm guessing the right-hand shot, of the total eclipse, was longer than 1/320th, and actually came after the shot on the left, yes? Because it looks like a full moon I would say that in a way it goes well next to the actual full-moon pic. But realists would probably prefer you put the images "in order", from left being the full moon, through the partial eclipse shots, with the total eclipse shot at the right. Dunno.

Anyway, they're great shots...I sadly missed the most recent total lunar eclipse due to hazy cloud cover. Plus I didn't have my scope with me anyway as I was on holiday.

[ejicon]

You are correct! I uploaded this shot on my laptop and now that I'm at work with better calibrated monitors, I can see the square I cut out around the total eclipse. The total eclipse was shot at 1/320th as well. I believe something shook the camera/tripod or something was up:

Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 300 mm
Flash: No Flash

thanks for the comment.