Nearly forgot. Clicked on the forum just in time to see this thread and to go out and have a look. Very dark out. And cold, 16* F. Moon is just now coming back and very red. Its also straight up in the sky, like the sun at noon. Cool thing to see.

Freaking awesome!!!! Thanks for the link


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Wow, it is dark outside.

yeah, the moon was overhead, and it made it hard to point the camera straight up at it. The camera would hit the tripod when you bent it back that far. It was too windy to try to do some offset tripod setup. Wind is howling outside. Had to basically lay on the ground and point head up to get shot. Stillest shot of the night was this one, but it got cropped off the frame. Also hands got too numb to adjust camera settings. Said "screw it" and went inside. :D
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1548049927.jpg


Here are some others:


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1548050046.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1548050046.jpg

I wonder what the "ancients" thought when first observing solar and lunar eclipses...

Was crystal clear here too. Didn’t think to take a picture. Glad I saw it. Seems clouds, travel or something normally obscures. Not this time. Very cool

I got a couple of shots. I didn't even attempt anything with the tripod.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1548078594.JPG
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Some really great shots. I especially like the one with the brighter exposure that showed some background stars. Shooting the moon to get background stars is always a pain because you blow out the detail on the moon, but get the stars. In the past where there was a conjunction of something like Pleiades, I'd take a couple of exposures and use photoshop to merge them.

"We should have listened to Tabz....he told us boyz..." ;).

Thanks, I had forgotten about the event, but saw this thread and ran out with the camera. I should have taken some bracketted exposures to make some composite shots, but it was soooo windy, I was scared the whole tripod assembly was going to blow over, and my hands got too numb to mess with settings. I was also just trying to time lulls in the wind for exposures. The other challenge was with the moon straight overhead, I couldn't see where I was pointing the camera, and there was nothing to frame the moon against. I also couldn't see the screen to evaluate how my exposure settings were working/ needed to be tweaked.

All in all, I was 'okay' with the pics considering how much the wind was shaking the camera. It was bad!

I was browsing slashdot and saw this story. A meteorite actually hit the moon during this eclipse and is visible on at least three different photos posted on-line!

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2191526-a-meteorite-hit-the-moon-during-yesterdays-total-lunar-eclipse/

It is captured in this video below:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2oXwtcAN-XE" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

+1 informative



Wish PARF had slashdot like mod points ... that would be fun, esp. if they could only be earned in "on topic" areas.

That's very cool. I think I missed this the first time this thread was around.

Me too, what are the odds on that happening?