Tonights Lunar Eclipse

[jpeets]

awesome ......

 

[North Light Press]

Looking out my hotel window in Two Harbors, MN right now. 10 below zero and clear as a bell... awesome.

 

[pauliej]

It's AWESOME!! Indianapolis is clear and 15 degrees F, and the eclipse is so freaking cool. Seemed like the totality was between 10:15pm and 10:40pm local time. Not sure what the stars/planets were around it, I live in town so could only see 3 that were nearby. Dang my 56 year old eyes anyhow. I hope everyone had a chance to witness this amazing event where you live, if the clouds gave you a good chance. Makes you wonder what the dudes around Stonehenge made of this that caused them to build in stone - it lasts longer...

Paul

 

[bruce terry]

Fast-running cirrus cloud cover, occasional, determined glimpses but couldn't pick up much of the umbra's redness straight overhead at total eclipse. Oh well, 2010 will be here in no time.

 

[Squidward]

Fu**ing clouds.

Grr, same here.

I took a few pictures as the moon was ducking behind the earth before the clouds started rolling in. I spent the rest of the evening waiting for the clouds to lazily drift by and get out of the way.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Saw only a few cloudy minutes as the shadow finished covering the Moon.

Steve

 

[Antje]

Just clouds... and I got up in the middle of the night. Sigh.

 

[Ian Grant]

Same here this mornings 6am eclipse was only visible as the earth's shadow passed over the moon at which point the clouds cover prevented any sight of the moons re-emergance.

Interestingly the cat woke us up wanting to go outside just as the eclipse was about 95% complete, she seemed to sense something was different.

Ian

 

[Uhner]

Grey sky…

 

[Antje]

Same here this mornings 6am eclipse was only visible as the earth's shadow passed over the moon at which point the clouds cover prevented any sight of the moons re-emergance.

Interestingly the cat woke us up wanting to go outside just as the eclipse was about 95% complete, she seemed to sense something was different.

Ian

That's cool... Mine was gone this morning, too. That's unusual, she's always there in the morning to see we wake up in time. She only came in after sunrise.

Antje

 

[Raphael]

Grr, same here.

I took a few pictures as the moon was ducking behind the earth before the clouds started rolling in. I spent the rest of the evening waiting for the clouds to lazily drift by and get out of the way.

Nice pic, however !

 

[Bob F.]

Fog...

Ah well, just got time to set the alarm clock for 21 December 2010.

Oh - that's probably the winter solstice too... Repent! The end of the World is Nigh!


Cheers, Bob.

 

[cowanw]

Yes it will if you remember that the albedo of the Moon is 0.5 and therefore the sunny 16 => sunny 11 as a starting place and open the aperature as the Moon gets darker. Also the Moon moves 15 degrees/hour or 0.25 degrees per minute.

Steve

Albedo is the measure of reflectance of sunlight. My point was if the earth is blocking the sun from lighting the moon the only light left is that reflected from the earth. Is there an earthy 5.6 rule?. I will be very interested in what the settings for the successful pictures at totality were.
Southern Ontario was clear and it was quite a sight. And longer than I had imagined. The moon looked pretty dark; I will take a guess at f2.8 and 1/ASA speed. And open 2 stops.
Regards
Bill

 

[Uhner]

Is there an earthy 5.6 rule?.

 

[Sanjay Sen]

I stepped out into the balcony every ten minutes or so, and had a good view of the eclipse. There were clouds earlier in the evening, but it cleared up well in time before the show began. I enjoyed the show instead of fiddling with a camera in the dark.

 

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

I got perfectly clear skies, no smoke or fog, and a moon high above the horizon so it wasn't hidden by buildings. My roll of E200 is full of bracketed shots, and I'll have it processed soon...

 

[Mike Wilde]

clear and COLD

I was at a class that finishes about when the eclipse was half way through. So I tossed the telescope in the back seat of the car on the way to night school after work. After class I set the scope and camera up beside the car in the school parking lot.

I found that the cable release I had with me must have some sort of grease in it, because it was useless at the -15C or so. The SRT101 was going to be used on self timer instead, with the mirror locked up, but the self timer on it stalled and did not trip the shutter once it too was cold.

I ended up using ilford xp/2 as the film, and a minolta x-570 to be able to auto meter the exposure. No miror lock up, but an electronic self timer.

I shot a about half the roll at my guestimation for shuter speeds , and the other half with the auto meter doing its thing. I picked this film for b&w in this shoot circumstance because of its very wide exposure latitude.

At one point I thought that the shutter release on the x-570 had stopped working. Then I realized that it was my finger that had frozen, and thus could not feel where exactly it should be positioned to depress the shutter release. After that I hopped into the idling car and put my hands over the defrost vent until some feeling came back, and subsequently put on some mittens. Since the camera was set up I could work the required functions while wearing the mitts. This mornign there was no redness or evidence of frost bite.

I shot later in my back yard , once I got home, and it was a bit more bearable, with a few trees around to reduce the wind chill.

I hope to process the film tomorrow night and see if there are any keepers on the roll.

 

[Squidward]

Nice pic, however !

Thanks!

 

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

Where are your pictures?

I got mine today (yeah, I was a little slow going to the lab...).

I used a Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI'd, which is nothing much interesting, so the scan is supplying the necessary focal length extension. Crappy Frontier scans, obviously, and the detail is better on the original slide. Ektachrome E200.

 

[Kevin Caulfield]

Thanks, Michel. I was wondering where the photos were. Nicely done!

 

[Uhner]

Thanks for posting these Michel. Good work

 

[Kevin Caulfield]

Anybody else? Please? Pretty please? Buehler??????