Blood Moon

[PKay (Peter)]

Here is my attempt.
Just using the Canon and 200mm lens.
Unfortunately the lens won't or cannot find proper focus (after being dropped).
ISO200, F5.5, 3 sec exposure.

I have played with contrast, colour balance and saturation to exaggerate the scene.

Anyway this one is for friends and family and is what it is

[Saturnine (Jeff)]

Valiant attempt anyway, as long as you enjoyed this mornings' show, that's they main thing.
Had similar experience a few eclipses ago where I decided to use my 400mm telephoto lens instead of a telescope. Much more difficult to achieve focus and ended up with soft focus shots.
This mornings show was well worth the effort of an early cool mornings sojourn.

[xelasnave]

You got a better one than me☺
Good one.
Alex

[Sunfish (Ray)]

Looks good to me. Great colour. I used a stock 200 also.

Getting up to start in the dark makes set up a challenge . I forgot to stop down again after getting foreground then , woosh , the moon was gone behind the escarpment.

[Atmos (Colin)]

You’ve got perfectly nice looking round stars so that would suggest good focus.

Lovely blood moon

[Sunfish (Ray)]

Is the problem the speed of the moon when adapted to tracking?

Any of my shots more than a second or two blurred the moon without setting up the tracker and then the moon is darker than usual.

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Best I could do at 6.30 am Neighbourhood was asleep so I got up, put a robe on put the 400mm F5.6 lens on my slr and stood in my neighbour's driveway as The moon was obscured in the back yard due to trees.

Only took 4 shots as it was cold and I was wearing nothing but a robe and moccasins in my neighbour's driveway holding a large camera.
(5dmark 2 iso 1/5 sec 6400) photoshopped to smooth out the noise but exposure


(edited as it was 1/5 of a sec not 5 seconds)

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

We all have those and it's a pity about the lens. Still the colour is great.

[Sunfish (Ray)]

You did well to hold a 400 and get that. In Melbourne. In July . In a robe.

Originally Posted by Nikolas

Best I could do at 6.30 am Neighbourhood was asleep so I got up, put a robe on put the 400mm F5.6 lens on my slr and stood in my neighbour's driveway as The moon was obscured in the back yard due to trees.

Only took 4 shots as it was cold and I was wearing nothing but a robe and moccasins in my neighbour's driveway holding a large camera.
(5dmark 2 iso 5 sec 6400) photoshopped to smooth out the noise but exposure

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Originally Posted by Sunfish

You did well to hold a 400 and get that. In Melbourne. In July . In a robe.

Thanks
I was leaning up against a wall and fired off a rapid succession, this one was the only one in focus so a bit of luck involved as well

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Oops that was meant to read 1/5 of a second not 5 seconds just saw it