Capturing the Lunar Eclipse 2007

[Applespider]

My sis had booked a window rather than an aisle seat for her flight back to Scotland tonight so that she could watch it from the air...

...but she missed the plane... oops! So she's watching from the bar at a Heathrow hotel.

I remember sitting up for a lunar eclipse until 2 or 3am in the early 80s.

Think of the power that the ancient civilisations who could predict the eclipse had over those who thought it was magic or the gods deserting them.

 

[R.Youden]

Here is mine...

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[MacBoobsPro]

Here is mine...

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Nice shot Youden. I wondered why the Spanish Football TV director kept looking at the moon

Dani Alves needs to be either shot or purchased by FCBarcelona. But thats for another thread.

 

[combatcolin]

Here is mine...

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Blimey, that looks good.

All i can get is a round-ish blob.

 

[eenu]

mine:

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[xsedrinam]

Cloud coverage. Particularly where the Moon is seen from our viewpoint, there's a heavy layer of clouds with weird looking glows. Looks like the scene from Strange Encounters.

 

[Nezza]

No cloud but lots of haze unfortunately.

Didn't help that I'd left my tripod on the table at home either.

 

[BoyBach]

Total bloody cloud cover! I couldn't see a thing.

 

[xsedrinam]

We still have 3:12 'til optimum viewing, so there's still hope. But the cloud formations are really wierd here, tonight.

 

[Bibulous]

was very much looking forward to this, but overcast skies in the Great Lakes

Here's a Moon shot from last year with Canon 70-200 f/4 @ 200 with 20D

 

[simie]

NIKON D200
Lens Sigma
aperture f6.3
focal length (35mm) 750mm
iso 400
shutter 6.0

I have cropped the image to get rig of the night sky. I just could seem to focus in any clearer than this.

 

[Bibulous]

I have cropped the image to get rig of the night sky. I just could seem to focus in any clearer than this.

Not a bad shot, thanks for posting.

Is that the color of the moon as seen by the naked eye?

 

[Lone Deranger]

Here's mine...

Canon D60, 400mm f5.6, 2.0sec, 400ISO.

A tad too grainy for my taste, but I was balancing my D60 and 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM at full length precariously on a hastily assembled stack of boxes (don't own a tripod). The assembly kept slipping away and longer exposures yielded even more motion blur...

 

[Bibulous]

Here's mine...

Great shot!

It is surprising how fast the moon moves across the sky.

These shots really make me wish I could see it here in Michigan tonight.

 

[jsw]

Too cloudy here to see anything above the cloud cover.

Alas...

As someone pointed out, I was in the wrong thread with this:

I expected a big 'X' to appear in it when I put my mouse over it so that I could close the window.

 

[iSaint]

We had about 40% coverage here in North America, but no able photographer around. Still a great sight!

 

[tonyeck]

Nothing too special, I didn't have my tripod with me

 

[miniConvert]

No pictures, but the eclipse was fantastic. Nice clear skies for it where I am.

Nice and slow too, plenty of time to get a good oogle!

 

[xsedrinam]

Here's mine...

Canon D60, 400mm f5.6, 2.0sec, 400ISO.

A tad too grainy for my taste, but I was balancing my D60 and 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM at full length precariously on a hastily assembled stack of boxes (don't own a tripod). The assembly kept slipping away and longer exposures yielded even more motion blur...

I especially like this one and the three dimensional feel you captured. Nice.

 

[the kid 05]

i thought you weren't supposta look at the moon because you will go blind? or was that a urban myth from my child hood?

 

[0098386]

It's ok here in Manc (so far....touch wood).

Got the camera setup unfortunately i don't have a suitable lense (only got 116mm)

Not in my neck of the woods! Up in Saddleworth it's cloudy. Ho hum.

 

[SkyBell]

i thought you weren't supposta look at the moon because you will go blind? or was that a urban myth from my child hood?

That's only for a solar eclipse, where the moon passes in front of the sun during the day. Luner's are perfectly safe.

I took some pretty crappy pics, but thats becasue I own a $100 camera.

 

[wmmk]

those Mr. Eclipse photos, especially the third one down with the palm trees, looked so, so, so cool! too bad it was cloudy in chicago during the eclipse
oh well, the moon was still nice tonight, but when I took pictures, it just showed up as sort of a blob of light, without any details...
I wonder why this is!
Anyway, here was my best attempt

 

[stoid]

You should use a faster shutter speed, or a smaller aperture (large F number).

 

[e-clipse]

^
absolutely beautiful!