My Lunar Eclipse shots

[iceman]

Phew, all day processing and here they are..

- 10" dob (no tracking)
- Sony DSCP100 5mp digicam on a fixed tripod, taking shots afocally through a 32mm GSO plossl
- 1/1000s exposure
- I used burst mode to grab 5 shots in sequence
- Each image on the composite is a stack of 5 shots, stacked in registax and processed in photoshop.

I have a 3000 pixel wide full size version if anyone is interested :) Though it looks noisy at that resolution because of my processing :)

Comments welcome.

[h0ughy]

Nice processing there Mike, and nicely presented!

[davidpretorius]

great stuff, mike, i have been hanging out for this all day.

I also used registax. It is funny that the box to select is not big enough for the moon!

[gbeal]

Nice compilation Mike, I was too lethargic to take this in, as it was timed at between 2200 and 0200 here.
Good to see you returning to the afocal method as well.

[iceman]

Thanks guys.

And Gary, I wasn't happy to be doing afocal again.. such a PITA with the tripod etc.. :)

Here's a couple of higher-res shots, the first is the before and the second is the max eclipse.

[ballaratdragons]

More great shots! Well done Mike. Lots of us got some good shots of it! Well done to everyone.

Oh yeah, thanks Sun, Earth & Moon for putting on the show :thumbsup:

[fringe_dweller]

Very Nice Mike! :2thumbs: in fact congrats everyone - there all great :) I really the Ken's as well - the Kodak is amazing!
It was much too windy where I am to bother getting the dobs out :( but i watched most of it just the same - as usual the full moon seemed to burn a nice big hole in the clouds for a good part of the show - very cool! had a nice moon halo around the moon from the high clouds to boot!

[ving]

nice shots...
hey they look loke the once on spaceweather :P

[Mick]

Great photos Mike and congratulations on making spaceweather.

[RB]

V. nice shots Mike, lots of detail.

:)

[iceman]

Thanks for the comments!