Eclipsed...

[IGMeanwell]

It's hilarious ... the thread seems to be growing with the title name

each new post seems to "eclipse" the one before it

No offense to those who posted first, I just thought it was a funny coincidence

 

[amateriat]

Pete: you might call this a Total Eclipse Of the Format...

(Ben: glad we got an M8 shot in here...thanks!)


- Barrett

 

[JP1]

Nikon D3, on Celesstron 750mm F5, 1 second, ISO 800, 10:23PM, outside Boston, 23 degrees, fingers freezing. 🙄

 

[Pablito]

mooooooooooonnnnnnnnn

 

[RdEoSg]

The little dot in the lower left of Pete and Pablito's shots is Saturn I believe...

 

[plummerl]

So here are three shots (1 min. after totality, 9 min. after and 8 min. after the end of totality. All taken with a Canon G9, mounted on a tripod next to my main light gatherer, OM-4T with 300mm and 1.4x extender. These are from the north-left coast, Seattle. 😎

 

[amateriat]

JP1: Oh, pretty...wondered what a D3 might do...

Edit: Larry, those are great, too!


- Barrett

 

[DwF]

Well it's hard to compete with the big guns in capturing this moon. Some really nice images here.

The 50 Summicron isn't too bad though (see link below). I kept the exposure down to iso 160 similar to Ben with his 90 Elmarit. 50mm is my telephoto lens these days.

http://www.pbase.com/image/93233234

David

 

[IGMeanwell]

Well if are going to list temperature when taking the image

I should state my image was taken at 7 degrees F 😀

All of these are great

 

[Kin Lau]

Thanks everyone... I was lazy tonight, so everything was taken from the balcony. The moon was in my line of sight just till totality, and then the other building blocked my view.

 

[bmattock]

Canon 5D
70-200 IS @ f2.8 (and 200mm)
ISO 400
1/20

Cropped (of course) 😀

Dave

Fantastic!

 

[greyhoundman]

ist DS, 600mm scope, .7 seconds, colder than a well diggers ***. 🙂

 

[bmattock]

ist DS, 600mm scope, .7 seconds, colder than a well diggers ***. 🙂

g-man is THE man!

 

[amateriat]

Agreed. G got it good!


- Barrett

 

[dmr]

Excellent shots, gang! 🙂

I saw the eclipse here (between Omaha and Lincoln, NE, US) maybe 8:15pm CST, and I thought of shooting it, but I didn't have any film in the Pentax and didn't feel like doing it since the longest I have is 135mm. We did have a very nice clear view of it here, and far enough out so we don't get much of the city lights.

I didn't even think of trying the P&S on it.

 

[sienarot]

I went out last night with every intension of taking photos of the eclipse... however it was so clear out, I couldn't resist taking photos of the stars instead 🙂

Here's an eclipse photo I took from last August though:

with this 😀

 

[amateriat]

"Stars Fell on Alberta."

Wonderful, Derrick!


- Barrett

 

[foto_fool]

Derrick... now THAT'S what I'm talkin' about! My wife has a friend in Sacramento with a similar kit. He's full-on addicted and it sounds like he drives hours to get to where the light is OK. Locally there is an amateur observatory a few miles up-valley that is open to the public and apparently has several nice scopes, including a 20" Dobsonian. When the kids get a little older...

 

[sienarot]

Haha, thanks Barrett!

John: photography was actually a segue from astronomy for me. The thing is, once I got into photography, I found I had very little time for astronomy 🙁 The university here also has an observatory just outside of city limits that houses a 1.8 meter Ritchey-Chretien telescope. I've been there once and they often have open houses for people to pop into. I should go again.

 

[ampguy]

Nice photos! I was out taking photos of the family looking through the telescope. However, after 3 or 4 photos from the steps, I slipped on some ice and fell on my butt. RD1 and 35/2 cron went bouncing down the stairs. I did get some good shots of the family though. Camera and lens are off to DAG. Don had some great reassurance - "It's a good thing these Eclipses happen only every 3 years!" 😀