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Lunar Eclipse Sunday night 2019.01.20

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Tripod is by the door and ready. Shooting with the full frame camera and a 100-400mm. May use the 1.4x teleconverter.
 
got to move my camera from 68F to 24F by 1030 EST tonight. Putting it in a cooler with the lid loosely attached.
 
It's cold out, but the front also cleared the air so I can see more stars and planets tonight than usual. Should be a great show tonight.
 
I'm going to sleep, take some pictures for me!
 
Curious what exposure settings you guys plan to use?
 
almost straight overhead for me. getting a crick in my neck.
 
Posting poor pics before we see the good ones to show what real cameras can do. 50% eclipsed
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Whole lot tougher than I thought. I don't think I got any good pics of it at peak. Hope somebody else had better luck/skill than me. Was almost directly overhead and 24F. I didn't have a good grasp on adjusting for the almost nill light, but it was still cool to see it.
 
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the red color looks almost three-dimensional . Really neat with all the stars. Imagine how it looks from big bend tonight.
 
We have some light clouds that caused my images to be on the soft side. So I don't like any of them. Oh well, it happens and you can't control the weather.

Settings started at manual mode, f11, ISO 400, ss 1/250, if I remember correctly. Decreased the shutter speed as the evening went, then f-stop. Finally got to f5.6 and 1/15 ss. Had to start bumping ISO at that point. I'd take a shot every few minutes. So the first in a group were at the previous settings and usually underexposed, then I'd tweak settings and shoot a couple more. Then take a break.
 
WoodButcher said:
We have some light clouds that caused my images to be on the soft side. So I don't like any of them. Oh well, it happens and you can't control the weather.

Settings started at manual mode, f11, ISO 400, ss 1/250, if I remember correctly. Decreased the shutter speed as the evening went, then f-stop. Finally got to f5.6 and 1/15 ss. Had to start bumping ISO at that point. I'd take a shot every few minutes. So the first in a group were at the previous settings and usually underexposed, then I'd tweak settings and shoot a couple more. Then take a break.
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Aaaack, I knew I was forgetting something. I forgot to shift the ISO. Dang it.
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Theirs that man in the moon shot we were waiting for :clap:

I was reading about the "locked orbit" of the moon last week with the Chinese "dark side" probe landing. Interesting stuff.
 
Slight haze at the casa last night so I didn't even try... I must be getting old and grouchy. But like Rusty said - you can't control the weather. I'll chalk this one up to Weather 1 - Photographer 0
 
Mine came out decent up through about 2/3 coverage. I forgot about motion blur from movement of the moon, so once I needed more light, I dropped the shutter speed instead of raising the ISO :doh: I did not realize it at first and just thought it was from the haze that had moved in about the same time. Later I was looking at the pics up close and noticed a few stars were short streaks instead of points of light :argh: Oh well... next time...
 
Tourmeister said:
Mine came out decent up through about 2/3 coverage. I forgot about motion blur from movement of the moon, so once I needed more light, I dropped the shutter speed instead of raising the ISO :doh: I did not realize it at first and just thought it was from the haze that had moved in about the same time. Later I was looking at the pics up close and noticed a few stars were short streaks instead of points of light :argh: Oh well... next time...
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you and me both.
 
Yeah, fast shutter speeds are a must with this stuff as it's all moving albeit slowly, it's still moving.
 
M38A1 said:
Yeah, fast shutter speeds are a must with this stuff as it's all moving albeit slowly, it's still moving.
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So how do people get those cool Milky Way shots? Just crank the ISO through the roof and go wide open on the aperture?
 
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