I'm looking forward to seeing some Lunar Eclipse photo's after Friday morning's event.
I will be up to watch it, weather permitting, but look forward to some awesome photo's from you guy's.
I am having a radio interview tomorrow morning (thursday 7th sept) to sing the praises of the partial eclipse to the non believers out there on 102.9 KOFM on behalf of the Newcastle Astronomical Society. The time is, well , somewhere between 5.30 am and 6am. well its better than nothing, and no they havent met me , I have an excellent head for radio .
I will try to do that. my setup on Friday will be the trust Pentax *istds and the tripod. in a sheltered place and hopefully the sucker holes will exist to the west!
not looking good, 6 hours to go and the weather is crap. One shot from sunrise this morning, then we had 40mm rain throughout the day and still have a howling gale force winds will get up near total for a peek but not hopeful other photos taken tonight
Set my alarm for 03.45, checked weather, went back to bed. Awoke for no apparent reason at 04.55, checked weather, transparency approx 1/10 but at that moment the moon was appearing in full between gusty cloud. Rushed to scope, grabbed camera and snapped (still half asleep) for 2 - 3 minutes before all dissapeared again behid more permanent stuff. This is the first full moon that I havent been able to fit the whole planet within my scope for an afocal so had to get a couple of bottom and top halves. Very dissapointed.
Can anyone stitch or save anything from these shots? Would be indebted if someone with more capability than I could salvage something after my efforts
heres a couple more for the mix , fought with clouds and in the end rain LOL but still got 60 or 70 shots in the end. 8 inch dob nikon cp 4500 afocal. to tired to do a good job on processing maybe, these will do. :-))) great show!
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will get up near total for a peek but not hopeful
other photos taken tonight
Here's what I captured on the video camera.
