Pete M Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 lunar eclipse tonight if anyone is up and has clear skies. just starting!
mjeff87 Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 Just hit totality here at 11:42 EST. It's soooo dark here (no streetlights in my subdivision), you can see so many stars that you otherwise wouldn't see, it's really cool.
Basajeep88 Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 Looks awesome. Won't see another until 2021. iPhone doesn't cut it. Totality south of Chicago in about 15 Min.
Dzimm Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 5 minutes ago, Basanova69 said: Looks awesome. Won't see another until 2021. iPhone doesn't cut it. Totality south of Chicago in about 15 Min. Similar view here in Des Moines, Iowa
DirtyComanche Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 Clouded over just as it was getting started. I was going to walk out on the lake and get a good picture or 100 using a variety of lenses. Nope.
Dzimm Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 2 minutes ago, DirtyComanche said: Clouded over just as it was getting started. I was going to walk out on the lake and get a good picture or 100 using a variety of lenses. Nope. Yeah that's no fun. The solar eclipse last year we had a storm roll through right when it happened..
Pete M Posted January 21, 2019 Author Posted January 21, 2019 best I could do with a 300mm lens and a makeshift tripod. I really need to replace my old tripod.
DirtyComanche Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 I'm so mad. $1600 worth of camera and lens, not a chance the cloud will break. Yes, that's it, at 150mm. I couldn't even see it by eye, and just let it expose for 10 seconds to see if it might show up. Was surprised I had it in frame... No hope of getting it in frame at 500mm when you can't see it though, and there's no point anyway. Other pic is the stars I took a few weeks back, just to prove I am not actually a total numpty with a camera.
Pete M Posted January 21, 2019 Author Posted January 21, 2019 yeah, we really lucked out that the storms passed by already. rumor has it that my nephew (8) was going to wake up for this and view it through his new telescope. I'll see if they snapped any pictures with it tomorrow.
fiatslug87 Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 Nice picture Pete, was that in GA or MI? Out of luck here, it has been raining all evening.
Pete M Posted January 21, 2019 Author Posted January 21, 2019 GA. down here we're a bit out in the country, about 20 minutes or so from the nearest town
gogmorgo Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 1 hour ago, DirtyComanche said: I'm so mad. $1600 worth of camera and lens, not a chance the cloud will break. That's too bad. We had the odd whispy cloud, but mostly clear. My roommate was out there for a while and took a bunch of photos, I didn't even bother trying with my phone.
Pete M Posted January 21, 2019 Author Posted January 21, 2019 I'm convinced my pics aren't quite in focus. the image really should be crisper for a couple grand worth of Canon. but it was late, the temp was in the teens, and I had literally taped the camera to a kid's pretend telescope (the only tripod-like thing I could find) and running a 10 second delay in an attempt to mitigate the shakes (both the wobbly tripod and my freezing hands). I took a lot of pics and one kinda turned out. sigh. it is what it is. maybe I'll try again tonight with a little more planning just to compare.
fiatslug87 Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 There's also the atmosphere you're shooting through and I'm assuming your exposure was a couple seconds, enough time for the moon's movement to have an affect.
Pete M Posted January 21, 2019 Author Posted January 21, 2019 those things too. it was... relatively dry for the area, but this is still georgia. and the house is down in the valley.
rokinn Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 Pete, nice photo in spite of the tripod. Watched it here through some fairly high power binoculars. Haven't had a really good camera since the invention of digital Totally clear skies, 32 degrees and about 5k feet. Looked just like the photo
cody4359 Posted January 24, 2019 Posted January 24, 2019 I'm convinced my pics aren't quite in focus. the image really should be crisper That's a pretty good pic. Do you play with light room or any other editing program? I'm amazed at what can be done, and I'm not even good with it.Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
Pete M Posted January 24, 2019 Author Posted January 24, 2019 um... I used MS Paint to crop the image? that's about as far as my 'puter skills go with image software.
fiatslug87 Posted January 24, 2019 Posted January 24, 2019 What's better than a Super Blood Wolf Moon Total Eclipse? https://www.labroots.com/trending/space/13887/meteorite-slammed-moon-recent-lunar-eclipse
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