lunar eclipse over Sydney

[lynnb]

Last night's lunar eclipse over Sydney was absolutely beautiful, after the cloud cover dispersed during the second half. I took a number of photos with a 550D on a tripod using a 70-200 lens and 1.4x converter; this photo is at 448mm equivalent taking the 1.6 APS-C crop factor into account:

Did anyone else take some photos? Please post them here and share them!

 

[deerstalkr]

The moon looks amazing! I had planned to watch the lunar eclipse, but I decided to head back inside my house when clouds began to obstruct my view.

 

[Richard G]

Binoculars, 8x 42, 80mm motor driven refracting telescope, OM2n with the 200 f4, the Leica C-lux 2 and the iPhone and two tripods all in the cupboard as the bloody rains kept coming down. Many eclipses and other wonders have I missed down here but I will always go out, hoping for break in the clouds, but not last night, no hope. Lovely shot Lynn.

 

[ricnak]

Nice one Lynn. Looked pretty good in Brisbane too. No pics though.

 

[Spicy]

i only got away with a handheld one on my D90 with 85 1.4 from the 7th story roof of my apt building slightly outside of seoul (less light pollution)

i brought my longer lenses back to the States, and my tripod is at a friends house :facepalm:


1:1 cropped but still lousy version:

 

[Richard G]

This was the eclipse of 28-8-07 with the Coolpix 4500 on a separate tripod, lens applied to eyepiece of the 80mm refractor, the only sharp one I could get. You can see Copernicus in this one. I got some others that night, but none sharp. 1" f2.6, ISO 400


DSCN2927.JPG 28-8-07 21.49 EST by Richard GM2, on Flickr

 

[batterytypehah!]

Thanks Lynn, this makes my day as I was bummed about the cloud cover this morning. Wasn't going to be good viewing for us Yanks, anyway, with totality after moonset.

 

[lynnb]

Richard, I still have my Coolpix 4500 - couldn't bear to part with it. Still have the slide copy attachment, too. Lovely camera for macros.

That sure was a lovely eclipse photo you took back in '07.

 

[Richard G]

Thanks so much Lynn. Yes the macro on that camera is fantastic. I've just revived it in the last week while my X100 is in being fixed.

 

[Richard G]

Mike Johnston (The Online Photographer) has picked up Lynn's picture. But of course, what's 10,000 miles to 250,000?

 

[nighstar]

awesome photo, Lynn. 🙂 i saw a bit of the eclipse before it was fun but then passed out as i was too tired. no way i could have captured such an awesome photo.... i'm jealous. 🙂

 

[Fraser]

No sign of the eclipse from here but I did take this pic a couple of days ago

 

[lynnb]

thanks for the comments guys - if anyone else has eclipse photos, please post them!

Richard - I had sent a link to Mike Johnston shortly after uploading it to Flickr. It was a nice surprise to see he'd mentioned it. As Bill Pierce said recently: "I saw something wonderful. Let me show it to you." This is one of the joys of photography.

 

[Richard G]

Great to appear on TOP. That is a great site for many reasons, not least that Mike Johnston really can write.