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12.02 am Eclipse 11-12-2011
Well the weather was not good last night,looking at the BOM radar around 7 pm it appeared some hail and nasty storms around near Kilcoy,we could feel the ice cold wind blowing up the range.I dismissed the thought of even seeing the eclipse.
Watched a movie,came out around 11.30 pm-there looked a chance it could clear briefly,so started from scratch getting everything ready.Rolled the roof of observatory,and had a few image attempts between the rolling cloud.
Not sure,if the moon ended up been totally dark,12.02 from my location seemed the darkest,but the clouds came so not sure.I did manage to capture a
'star rise' (see close up).
Images taken using a Vixen 103 ED refractor,on a GPD2 mount,a Canon 50D settings around 1.6 sec exp and iso 400.Little PP,mainly levels and a crop.
Hope these are of interest.Thanks for looking-Cheers Chris
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