Nice pictures, but I’ve seen so many of these in my lifetime I didn’t bother
even to think about getting up to catch this one. True, it turned out to be
cloudy at the event, but when I was up about 1:30 a.m. for a nature call, the
sky was clear, the moon bright. I toyed with the idea of staying up, but
decided to put my toys away. Total lunar eclipse. Yawn. Sleep is better.
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Apr 15, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Late last night we were treated to a total lunar eclipse, one where the
> moon does not enter into Earth's umbra but instead the penumbra, leaving the
> moon a reddish colour during totality, hence the name "Blood Moon". Here's a
> series of photos taken over a period of almost an hour:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13872873395/
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13872874325/
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13872875525/
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13872875945/
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13872876905/
>
> and a token photograph of Mars, which was nearby:
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13872877365/
>
> All taken with the E-510 with the Samyang 100-500/5.6 lens. Exposure
> time was 1 second, which was a bit slow but a little post processing gamma
> adjustment returned the colour to a more natural hue. Longer exposure time
> made the photos appear to be even more OOF.
>
> I'm surprised that the lens did this well, and I had hoped that the
> Quantaray 500mm bazooka lens I bought late last week would have arrived so
> that I could try it out during this event. It has less glass and is almost a
> refractor telescope with a camera mount.
--
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