Total Lunar Eclipse Sequence, December 2011

iceman (Mike) · #1 20-12-2011, 07:17 AM

The Total Lunar Eclipse of December 2011 was a special one for me - it's the first one where everything went right. After days of rain, the skies cleared on the night of the eclipse. My equipment worked flawlessly and the seeing was rock steady, giving me my sharpest images of a Total Lunar Eclipse.

I was even uploading a live stream of images to the SLOOH Events page, as well as the IceInSpace Facebook page, my personal Facebook profile and my Google+ profile for viewing by a worldwide audience and everything just worked. The only downside was losing the Moon behind a tree just after totality started - but I knew it was coming so I was thankful that I was able to image Totality before losing it for the night.

The middle image is a HDR of the mid-partial phase. 7 images combined using Photomatix Pro and processing in Photoshop.

The original image is 9000px wide, so this 1000px wide attachment doesn't really do it justice but you can view a larger one (2000px here):

- 2000px wide
- Blog with more details: Total Lunar Eclipse Sequence, December 2011

And with this, my processing of lunar eclipse images finally comes to an end

Thanks for looking.

strongmanmike (Michael) · #2 20-12-2011, 09:15 AM

Nice set there Mike, very well done

Mike

Matt Wastell (Matt) · #3 20-12-2011, 09:59 AM

It was a super event and you have aced it! Beautiful presentation!

Troy · #4 20-12-2011, 04:53 PM

Nice images Mike, well done

Mariner (Frank) · #5 20-12-2011, 08:56 PM

Wow! Really nice images Mike. Great colour and detail.

The3rdKind (John) · #6 21-12-2011, 12:42 AM

Really Really nice pics Mike.

The middle image is my favourite. A little stacking was in order I guess. I took some shots but nothing to rival this.

Thank-you for sharing

SkyViking (Rolf) · #7 21-12-2011, 05:47 AM

Beautiful images and a great presentation Mike. Excellent work.

iceman (Mike) · #8 21-12-2011, 05:50 AM

Thanks for the feedback guys.

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Originally Posted by The3rdKind

Really Really nice pics Mike.

The middle image is my favourite. A little stacking was in order I guess. I took some shots but nothing to rival this.

Thank-you for sharing

Thanks and yeh, the middle image is a 7 exposures combined into one using Photomatix Pro.