Lunar eclipse

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-03-15 05:07pm

Did anyone else try taking a picture of that lunar eclipse a few weeks ago?

I did, but it was cold and windy: not ideal conditions for taking a snapshot (as if a darkened night sky is an ideal target of photography in the first place). And I didn't even have my 300mm lens on me. But I think I did pretty well, considering the conditions.

Doesn't it look cool? Mind you, it doesn't look quite "blood red", like they say it should, but a deep orange is good enough for me.

Havok · Post by **Havok** » 2008-03-15 05:10pm

Looks cool. Perhaps someone could photoshop the sky a bit to make it more of a uniform black so it contrasts the moon better.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2008-03-15 09:04pm

I saw it from the plane window, it looked beautiful from up there. When we were on the ground at Pearson, they let us out onto the airfield to see the climax (is that the right word?), and it looked exactly like that.

It's a nice shot.

Coriolis · Post by **Coriolis** » 2008-03-15 11:41pm

'shopped in some more uniform black.

Pretty damn cool.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2008-03-16 01:25am

I tried, but didn't have a tripod and it was fairly windy. I'll see if any of the shots are recoverable, though.

Meest · Post by **Meest** » 2008-03-16 04:25pm

I tried with a 300mm lens and a tripod but the light pollution killed it, would be interesting to see how it looked for people more outside major cities.

Hawkwings · Post by **Hawkwings** » 2008-03-16 04:38pm

I took some shots on 10X zoom with a tripod. I also got some long exposures, 15, 30, and 60 seconds.

60 second-exposure. First time I used that on my camera.

Another long exposure (30 seconds I think) with my neighborhood in view.

10x zoom, no tripod, cropped down.

Same thing, but with tripod.

High sensitivity. Grainy, but that's the trade-off.

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2008-03-17 04:36am

Nice pics there, folks. The night of the eclipse I went outside to see it, only to see nothing but overcast.

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-03-17 05:28am

And now for contrast, here's a quick shot I took without a tripod a few minutes ago. This is not an eclipse effect, but rather the moon viewed through a thick smoke haze due to some serious bushfires 200 kilometres to the north.

SilverWingedSeraph · Post by **SilverWingedSeraph** » 2008-03-17 05:45am

tim31 wrote:This is not an eclipse effect, but rather the moon viewed through a thick smoke haze due to some serious bushfires 200 kilometres to the north.

That's what's causing it? I was wondering why the moon was all red and stuff tonight, but I couldn't be bothered actually finding out the reason why. Now I know... hrm. Very nice picture of it, too...