OT: Lunar Eclipse

[Ebn]

Taken earlier this morning.

 

[kwl1763]

I was just about to ask if anyone had pics! I was all ready to go with my stuff and picked out a good place and then it ended up being cloudy and rainy here

Anyone else?

 

[edwing206]

That's awesome! I didn't know there was going to be one.

 

[BlueCorn]

Nice Eric. There is far too much light pollution in my neighborhood to try that.

 

[Ebn]

Yup, happened very early this morning. The first shot was taken at around 2 A.M. and the shot on the right was taken at around 3:30 A.M. I didn't stick around for the second half since I had to be up in another 3.5 hours for work.

I wasn't actually planning on shooting this, but was still up at 1:45 A.M. Just took my gear to the backyard and shot them (took a shot every 2.5 minutes approximately).

 

[Ebn]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10652628#post10652628 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by beerguy
Nice Eric. There is far too much light pollution in my neighborhood to try that.

I thought the same until I started shooting. It was pretty bright with the full moon and then the eclipse showed up. My shutter speed dropped off once that happened. With the second shot, I had to use a shutter speed of 1 second and push exposure up by two stops at ISO 800.

 

[AMGSiR]

I was out with my 400 + 1.4x tele.

But the clouds came

 

[jwedehase]

Can I ask what you guys were doing for camera settings? I had a miserable time with motion blur. I used one serious POS long zoom (100-400mm) at 400mm. It's extremely slow, at f/6.3. The best shutter speeds I could manage, at ISO 3200 no less, was 2".

Can you share your tricks?

 

[dr dee]

Very nice shots!:thumbsup:

 

[Ebn]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10655760#post10655760 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jwedehase
Can I ask what you guys were doing for camera settings? I had a miserable time with motion blur. I used one serious POS long zoom (100-400mm) at 400mm. It's extremely slow, at f/6.3. The best shutter speeds I could manage, at ISO 3200 no less, was 2".

Can you share your tricks?

1 sec. is about as slow as you want to shoot it at. Any slower than that and you end up w/a blurry image. You should be able to get a better shutter speed than that w/the full moon. It's only when it's eclipsing when you'll have issues with the shutter speed.

Here's #1 again. This one is shot at ISO 200.

 

[AMGSiR]

I was actually shooting at ISO100.. and meandering around trying to shoot at 100-200ths

 

[Dino]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10658144#post10658144 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ebn
It's only when it's eclipsing when you'll have issues with the shutter speed.

Unless you're in my part of the country and then you also have smoke to deal with too!

Here is my attempt, IQ suffered a bit since this is a massive crop and also at a fairly high ISO. Taken with Canon 400D, 70-200mm f/4L, f/4.0, SS 1 sec. FL 200mm, ISO 800, long exposure noise reduction turned on in custom settings, mirror lock up, full manual using a remote and tripod also . I got up too late to catch it entering the eclipse and I also live right next to some several thousand foot tall mountains so unfortunately I also didn't get to catch it coming out of the eclipse either.

 

[ahuxman58]

Nice catches, Had clouds here so couldnt get any shots. I think the next one is in February not sure.