Lunar eclipse to shoot around 3am EST

mb

A somewhat grittier image...
http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/image/84629285

EXIF data a bit off I am thinking.

"Troy Piggins" wrote in message
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* RichA is quoted & my replies are inline below :
Info:

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...2007Aug28.html

How to shoot:

http://www.mreclipse.com/LEphoto/LEphoto.html

Undriven mounts (tripods) mean exposures over 1 second at 500mm
equivalent will blur due to the motion of the Earth.

Anyone got any tips for shooting this tonight with a tripod,
70-200 f/2.8, 1.4x and 2x extenders? I read stop down to f/11 or
so. Anything else to look out for?

With a DSLR, it hardly matters. You can figure it out in a few shots,
and
shoot a hundred or more of essentially the same thing before it's over!
(And I think f11 is overkill--at those distances, f 5.6 to f8 would be
fine,
and maximize your lens's potential in most cases.)

Thanks Matt. I did end up doing something like that. The advice
I was quoting was for "normal" moon/full moon shots IMO. Last
night it was way too dark to apply. Had to manually play with
exposures.

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Who the hell gave that advice??? ;-)

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fine,
and maximize your lens's potential in most cases.)

Thanks Matt. I did end up doing something like that. The advice
I was quoting was for "normal" moon/full moon shots IMO. Last
night it was way too dark to apply. Had to manually play with
exposures.

Who the hell gave that advice??? ;-)

Some guy who knows more about photography than I do ;-)

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"Pete D" a écrit dans le message de news:
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mb

A somewhat grittier image...
http://www.pbase.com/andersonrm/image/84629285

EXIF data a bit off I am thinking.



Yes, I don't understand the f:/1.0 in several pictures of the related page.
F: 10 ?

"Troy Piggins" wrote in message
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* RichA is quoted & my replies are inline below :
Info:

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...2007Aug28.html

How to shoot:

http://www.mreclipse.com/LEphoto/LEphoto.html

Undriven mounts (tripods) mean exposures over 1 second at 500mm
equivalent will blur due to the motion of the Earth.

Anyone got any tips for shooting this tonight with a tripod,
70-200 f/2.8, 1.4x and 2x extenders? I read stop down to f/11 or
so. Anything else to look out for?

With a DSLR, it hardly matters. You can figure it out in a few shots,
and
shoot a hundred or more of essentially the same thing before it's over!
(And I think f11 is overkill--at those distances, f 5.6 to f8 would be
fine,
and maximize your lens's potential in most cases.)

Thanks Matt. I did end up doing something like that. The advice
I was quoting was for "normal" moon/full moon shots IMO. Last
night it was way too dark to apply. Had to manually play with
exposures.


Sounds like fun!

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www.mattclara.com

Hi All,

The Orange County Astronomer's Go-To sig had an extended meeting on the
27th that included a few of us staying up all night viewing the eclipse
from my back yard. All these were taken with my Canon 20D through my
Celestron 80ED which is piggybacked on my 10" lx200 OTA. All of this is
on a Losmandy G-11 with Gemini and stored in a Skyshed POD XL3.

I decided to try doing some HDR type imaging for this just to see what
I could get. So I bracketed all the shots by 2 stops. then I plan to
winnow them down to single images and then hopefully put together a
Quick time movie or animated GIF of the whole eclipse (about 125 shots
total).

But in the meantime I managed to put together 2 HDR images one of the
Full moon about 45 minutes to the beginning of the eclipse and another
of the totality. I shrank them to the OCA website size and posted them.

Full moon is he
http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroim...um.asp?ID=5519

Totality shot he
http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroim...um.asp?ID=5521

Take a look and let me know what you think good and bad.

Craig




RichA wrote:

Info:

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...8/TLE2007Aug28
.html

How to shoot:

http://www.mreclipse.com/LEphoto/LEphoto.html

Undriven mounts (tripods) mean exposures over 1 second at 500mm
equivalent will blur due to the motion of the Earth.



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Craig wrote:

Hi All,

The Orange County Astronomer's Go-To sig had an extended meeting on the
27th that included a few of us staying up all night viewing the eclipse
from my back yard. All these were taken with my Canon 20D through my
Celestron 80ED which is piggybacked on my 10" lx200 OTA. All of this is
on a Losmandy G-11 with Gemini and stored in a Skyshed POD XL3.

I decided to try doing some HDR type imaging for this just to see what
I could get. So I bracketed all the shots by 2 stops. then I plan to
winnow them down to single images and then hopefully put together a
Quick time movie or animated GIF of the whole eclipse (about 125 shots
total).

But in the meantime I managed to put together 2 HDR images one of the
Full moon about 45 minutes to the beginning of the eclipse and another
of the totality. I shrank them to the OCA website size and posted them.

Full moon is he
http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroim...um.asp?ID=5519

Totality shot he
http://www.ocastronomers.org/astroim...um.asp?ID=5521

Take a look and let me know what you think good and bad.

The first shot is a spectacular full moon. I don't see any partial
eclipse shots that would make use of HDR though.
I did a couple hand-rolled HDR merges:
http://edgehill.net/Misc/misc-photos...eclipse/pg1pc3

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http://edgehill.net
Bay Natives Nursery
http://www.baynatives.com

Thanks Paul,

I have not done any processing on the partials yet, hence why I posted
none. I had very little time to work on these since the eclipse but
don't worry I'll get to them. I took somewhere between 300 - 400 shots
(most bracketed by 2 stops) so when all processed I should have over
100 HDR shots of the event. Of these I'll pick teh best and try my hand
at creating an animated movie of teh eclipse.

Paul Furman wrote:
The first shot is a spectacular full moon. I don't see any partial
eclipse shots that would make use of HDR though. I did a couple
hand-rolled HDR merges:
http://edgehill.net/Misc/misc-photos...eclipse/pg1pc3



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On Aug 27, 6:05 pm, RichA wrote:
Info:
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...28/TLE2007Aug2...
How to shoot:
http://www.mreclipse.com/LEphoto/LEphoto.html
Undriven mounts (tripods) mean exposures over 1 second at 500mm
equivalent will blur due to the motion of the Earth.

Thanks!
My co-worker told me about it during the day. But I managed to forget
to tell everyone on the Internet.

We witnessed the entire event during the wee hours of the morning. I
decided to shoot videos this time, rather than photographs, and ended
up with 3-1/2 hours worth of footage. Going to have to spend a lot of
time putting the shorter video version together.

Chieh
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Camera Hacker - http://www.CameraHacker.com/