The clouds parted long enough for this shot, in between covering the gear during brief rain which was around
10 seconds @ ISO 800, Williams Optics FLT-132 and canon 7D.
This was one of the darkest eclipses I have seen to date
Grahame.
Super pic, Grahame, I was working nights and every time I popped out it was cloud cover i had three girls on with me and none had ever seen an eclipse and I was really keen for them to see, but no luck.
Howard - last night was first light for the 7D, I used up to ISO 3200 and it was excellent at this iso too. I will have no hesitation using ISO 1600 for widefield work with this camera.
Shane - I focused using live view at about 2am and kept this focus all night - if I attempted to refocus during the eclipse liveview would have been useless it was so dim.
Im extremely happy i stuck it out with setting up the gear - evan while I was standing there with the umbrella shielding the scope/battery thinking "totality is in 20 mins... cmon cloud give me a break!"
I only got a 10 second window, and had my Nikon at iso400 - I was hoping to bracket, but that's all I got for an hour. The old f15 UNitron 4" frames the moon quite nicely - but I'm seriously impressed with your image.
I only got a 10 second window, and had my Nikon at iso400 - I was hoping to bracket, but that's all I got for an hour. The old f15 UNitron 4" frames the moon quite nicely - but I'm seriously impressed with your image.
Andrew, part of my job is checking blood for sugar levels, it's only a little less red than your moon!
Beautiful. We had plenty of opportunity down south and I ventured to Bunbury where there was plenty of time but I feel the moon was too high for us in the west to get some nice wide field shots.
Your photo is so realistic and for that well done!
I assume you are very pleased with the 7D? I am considering getting one as my 40D is being retired shortly.
Stunning Result ! !
