Lunar eclipse montage - 8th Sept 2006 [Archive]

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Dennis

11-09-2006, 09:52 AM

Hello,

Oops, almost forgot this one after all the excitement of the Uranus conjunction. Here is a montage of the lunar eclipse taken through the WO 80mm ED Triplet with the Pentax *ist DS on a photo tripod with the Manfrotto geared head.

Interval between images was 1 minute with the scope being manually centred between exposures. It was a dreary 60 minutes – oh for a tracking mount at the time!

Cheers

Dennis

iceman

11-09-2006, 10:07 AM

Very nice Dennis! An animated gif would go down even better :)

PS: Put your name on it! :)

Stop your whinging ;)

Dennis

11-09-2006, 10:19 AM

Working on it...watch this space. ;)

I usually have my name in the thread so tend not to bother with polluting the image with it. Is there a copyright/courtesy issue here?

Ahem...I am a Pom, therefore I whinge. :P

Cheers

Dennis

h0ughy

11-09-2006, 10:30 AM

But it is round? Nice Big D!

iceman

11-09-2006, 10:41 AM

No issue as such, but if someone hotlinks to your image, or it gets on LPOD or other places, you want recognition of your work!

Dennis

11-09-2006, 10:45 AM

Thanks for the explanation Mike - mojo also mentioned this is a response yesterday. I have just e-mailed you the animated gif.

Cheers

Dennis

PS - What on earth is H0ughy talking about? :shrug:

h0ughy

11-09-2006, 10:50 AM

Sorry my medication must be wearing off:P :D . the fact you made a luny doughnut:lol: Meant to say Nice image Big D, as oppose to thinking it was in a big D shape. but hey that's fine I will crawl off into the kennel and hide:sadeyes:

Dennis

11-09-2006, 11:11 AM

Too subtle, too early and too clever for me H0ughy :lol:

Cheers

Dennis

ving

11-09-2006, 11:13 AM

oh houghy!!! :rolleyes:

great montage dennis! :thumbsup:

[1ponders]

11-09-2006, 12:46 PM

Good onya Dennis. Now that's dedication, doing an alnighter, getting the occultation and then the eclipse and then processing them in super quick time for display. Have you had any sleep yet?

Dennis

11-09-2006, 01:50 PM

:lol: Thanks Paul!

I'm just about recovered now. When I was a young whipper snapper, I could pull 2 consecutive all nighter’s, go for a 10km run in the morning and still get through the day reasonably aware and composed. Now, it takes 2 days to catch up after a single all nighter. :( :(

Cheers

Dennis

TidaLpHasE

11-09-2006, 02:28 PM

:eyepop:Awsome Dennis, would make a great poster.