[Dreadhead]

Hi everyone,

My other hobby is photography (mostly birds) anyway the sky viewing for the total lunar eclipse last night was awesome and I got a couple good shots. I figured since there won't be another one until 2010 I'd post it.

Cheers!

***Edit****corrected the year.... I remembered CNN wrong sorry!

 

[boomana]

Nice shot.

I saw about 30 secs of the eclipse with a nice red hue starting right before the moon ducked behind the clouds that stayed throughout the night.

 

[Binaural Fusion]

Next total lunar eclipse is December 21st 2010:
NASA - Lunar Eclipse Page

 

[Samgotit]

I'm sorry, but last night's just sucked. It was more of an amber-clipse than an eclipse. I can get the same effect any night with a pair of blueblockers and a six pack.

Beautiful picture otherwise.

 

[micaela]

Nice picture! Too overcast here to see much.

 

[yuckymucky]

Great picture!! It was cloudy and raining here last night so I didn't get to see any of it. I guess 2 years isn't that far off...

 

[scott_d_m]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Samgotit /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'm sorry, but last night's just sucked. It was more of an amber-clipse than an eclipse. I can get the same effect any night with a pair of blueblockers and a six pack. Beautiful picture otherwise.

lol...Blueblockers, I haven't heard of those in a while. People still have these.

 

[TheMarchingMule]

Thank you for that beautiful photo. It is now my desktop wallpaper.

Out of curiosity, what camera and lens did you take it with?

 

[UW Howie]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheMarchingMule /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thank you for that beautiful photo. It is now my desktop wallpaper. Out of curiosity, what camera and lens did you take it with?

from the image exif data, it looks like he used a Nikon D200 at 380mm. I don't know what lens though. I am also interested.

 

[Kikuji]

That is a beautiful picture. Thank You for sharing it with us.

 

[Gautama]

I sat on my deck with the Zune and the Grados and watched it for an hour or so, until the clouds came..

 

[Dreadhead]

Hi,

It was a Nikon D200 at ISO 400. I was using the 70-200 f2.8 VR with the Nikon 2x teleconverter. It was actually at 400mm I'm not sure why it's listed wrong; my guess is that it was just a smidge off max and it goes to the next highest number. That lens is so sharp it's amazing even with the 2x. It was all mounted up on a carbon fiber tripod with a Kirk ball head to keep it steady.

I also used Noiseware to remove the noise (Imagenomic - Imagination at Shutter Speed). I have no interest in spreading that around but their software is awesome.