Lunar Eclipse Images

[Greg]

I decided to break out the telescope to check out tonight's lunar eclipse. I also tried taken some pictures of the moon through the eyepiece with my digital camera. Surprisingly enough, the pics of the full moon came out pretty good so I tried to take pictures of the eclipse during various phases. The ones with the most light came out the best, but overall not a bad job for a total hack with a marginal telescope and a 3.2 megapixel point and shoot digital camera. I hope you enjoy them:

9:10 PM - Full moon:

9:26 PM - Eclipse starting:

9:44 PM - 1/3 eclipsed:

10:11 PM - 2/3 eclipsed:

10:28 PM - Almost fully eclipsed:

I couldn't get a full eclipse image as some high clouds rolled in. Probably wouldn't have come out any good anyway considering the low light. This nighttime photography is pretty cool and something I probably could get into with the right equipment...

 

[bvibert]

Good job! Thanks for sharing the pics

 

[severine]

Those are great! Thanks for sharing!!

 

[skijay]

I took some last night but need to download them to see how bad they came out

 

[MtnMagic]

Here are three superb photo's from a professor friend at Harvard. They are 300,000-405,570 bytes and up to 2048 x 1536 pixels. Huge, sharp, stunning!

The rockpile in space. Look at all the meteorite craters!
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~meehan/bigrock.jpg

Going . . .
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~meehan/partial01.jpg

Gone!
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~meehan/total01.jpg

 

[Greg]

Here are three superb photo's from a professor friend at Harvard. They are 300,000-405,570 bytes and up to 2048 x 1536 pixels. Huge, sharp, stunning!

The rockpile in space. Look at all the meteorite craters!
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~meehan/bigrock.jpg

Going . . .
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~meehan/partial01.jpg

Gone!
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~meehan/total01.jpg

So much for my feeble attempt... :roll:

:wink:

 

[MtnMagic]

When I returned home I found the links in my inbox and was going to post them. You had already posted yours, so I contributed mine. Too good not to share with friends.
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[MtnMagic]

btw: With the Earth passing between the sun and the moon, the only light hitting the full moon was from our planet's sunrises and sunsets, resulting in the orange and red hue during the full eclipse.

 

[TeleGrrrl]

Nice pix Greg
I tried last eclipse to get pix with tripod, 35mm, and digital, but they came out yucky. You did great with your equipment!

MtnMagic, I'd say you're prof friend has some serious change invested in equipment, or he teaches astronomy Sweet pix.


Kudos to both of you