It was a miracle- Eclipse inbetween clouds.

[CapturingTheNight]

and Greg raisedeth his hands and said unto the clouds "Go Away"...... and it was so.

I think I got incredibly lucky last night. Had a heap of cloud and rain during the day into the evening. But just before midnight the clouds broke up a bit and I managed to get a few shots off before a storm came through about half an hour after totallity.:D

Canon 60D
10 inch (25cm) F/4 Newtonian Reflector Telescope
Baader Coma Corrector
NEQ6 Pro Goto Mount set on Lunar Tracking
ISO 100
20 second exposure
105332

[Saturn%5]

Nice shot Greg, nothing but cloud and rain here.

[JarrydS]

Amazing shot Greg, wish it looked like that from Darwin!

[venus]

Great image there, skill,perserverance,and a little luck goes a long way;)

[iceman]

Beautiful shot Greg, one of the best I've seen!

20s exposure, wow I couldn't do that. I just plonked my mount down and had to keep adjusting using the hand controller to keep it in frame :)

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Greg
That is a super image - congratulations!

[Ross G]

Great capture Greg.


Ross.

[A23649]

Fantastic image Greg, really well done. Best Eclipse I managed last night was the cloud in front of the Moon. :(

[John Hothersall]

Can you come down my way and do the raithdeth stuff!

Its great to steal an image when nature has other ideas, great colour, I could see the whiter top through the clouds.

John.

[Paul Haese]

Lovely Sharp image. Well done.

[Aidan]

Beautiful shot.

Love your work

[Jen]

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: nice shot Greg :thumbsup:

[zardos123]

great!...... having the tonal range like that gives a real 3d effect

regards brad

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you all so much for the great feedback :D I'm glad you all like it. Sorry to hear so many people missed out with bad weather. I still can't believe my luck with this one.

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you so much Mike :D That means so much. Yeah I was quite surprised I could go that long without some small amount of blurring even with the NEQ6 Pro mount set on lunar tracking considering I couldn't properly polar allign the mount with all the cloud around. I just plonked the tripod legs down on their marked positions on the concrete slab I use and started taking shots. It did drift a small amount over the course of the eclipse but obviously not enough to effect a 20 second shot. I had to do a 20 second exposure as this particular shot was actually taken through some faint wispy high level cloud, thus making the moon even dimmer than normal.

[spacezebra]

Brilliant Greg

Clouded out in Albury :-(

Cheers Petra d.

[astronobob]

Wow, Very impressive Result , , , Awesome ! !

[h0ughy]

mmmm i thought i replied to this one - fantastic shot!!!

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you so much Petra, Bob and David :D

[lacad01]

Cracker of a shot! :thumbsup:

[CapturingTheNight]

Thaank you so much Adam :D

[Clayton]

Very nice Greg :thumbsup: One of the best I have seen so far :)

[CapturingTheNight]

Thank you very much Rob :D Glad you like it.