Reprocessed images from lunar eclipse

[Liz]

I took 3 images of this pic in the hope of stacking and processing them, and gave it a go with abyssmal results.

When I took the first image I saw that it was pretty good, so glad that this one is an improvement on the original.

I sent them to Robk for him to play with, Robs helped me out before. Many thanks Rob.

I popped them on my FB page, and have had comments from Suzy, Paul, jjj and Mike, so thought it would show the rest of you guys, of what can be done with bit of stacking, and processing.

The 1st is mine, then 2 of Robs processed images.

[renormalised (Carl)]

Nice repros, especially the 3rd one

[iceman (Mike)]

Really nice Liz, I love the 3rd one too.

Nice work Rob!

[Dennis]

Wow Liz – the repro really lifts these off the page – what a stunning celestial vista!

Great pp work Rob!

Cheers

Dennis

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Really nice stuff Liz, is that a falling star/fireball in the image as well or what?

[multiweb (Marc)]

That last one looks great. You've got it all. The milky way the moon and the reflections. Nice.

[Liz]

Originally Posted by mswhin63

Really nice stuff Liz, is that a falling star/fireball in the image as well or what?

Thanks guys. Processing can certainly help a bit.

Yes, Andrew, was a lovely bright meteor and I saw it when I took the pic, so glad it squeezed into the image.

[midnight (Darrin)]

Well done Liz!

The combination of the foreground with the Milky Way and then the eclipsed moon with its reflection off the water and to cap it off, what appears to be a meteor streak!

Fantastic,
Darrin...

[Suzy]

I like the third one the best.

Liz, I find myself looking at this pic on facebook everyday. And wow I have just noticed that this morning, it has reached over the 100 mark (combining likes & comments, incl. JJJ's sharing of it on fb).

I showed this pic to the hubby and daughter yesterday and their jaws literally dropped... they both stared at it for quite a bit.

It has everything in this pic!
And I just can't get over those gorgeous reflections in the water of the meteor, Antares and the moon. Unbelievable how you just caught that meteor in the nick of time and it's in the most perfect spot where less stars are so it really stands out.

I've had Nettie's Omega Centauri on my desk top the last few weeks, so looks like you've knocked her off the spot, because if you don't mind, I would love to have this as my latest desktop image.

There is something truly fabulous isn't there about the night sky and the water..............................

[Liz]

Thank you Suzy, thats very kind of you, and absolutely knock jjj off and put mine on your desktop!!!

Thankyou Darrin too, yes, a nice little meteor.

By the way, the right settings for this image were -
ISO 1600, FL 17mm, f 2.8 for 40 sec (yes, pushed it to 40).
Canon 450D, with a Tamron lens (thnakyou Grahame from IIS ).