The Blood Red Moon

[iceman (Mike)]

This is the best 'total eclipse' image of the Moon I've done in the 4+ years I've been trying to photograph them.

A single 2 second exposure @ ISO1600 with the Canon 40D through the ED80.
The seeing was so steady that night.

- Large version
- Blog: The Blood Red Moon

Next comes the sequence, if I can find the time...

Thanks for looking.

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Look pretty good there Mike, I am sure your happy with that one, nice and sharp, well done.

[Matt Wastell (Matt)]

Hi Mike
A super image!
It is always nice to continue to improve!

[CapturingTheNight (Greg)]

Great shot Mike

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

Very nice and crisp, and great colour too! Congratulations Mike

[h0ughy (David)]

telescopes make all the difference - nice work mike. camera lenses are duller and not sharp

[Peter Ward]

I'd be very happy with that. (sadly, work had me elsewhere...hence no dice with this eclipse for yours truly)

Sharp, nice dynamic range.

Nice one!

[astronobob (Bob)]

Wow, thats a scorcher - In a Great Way, yep ! The Ed 80 is a great performer for full frame lunar work !
A sharp image & Top notch hue richness !

[Jen]

yep very nice pic

[zardos123 (Brad)]

nice to see ya back out on the tools mike, very good shot keep em coming
regards brad

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Lovely sharp stuff Mike

[rogerg (Roger)]

Good on you Mike, looks great

[iceman (Mike)]

Originally Posted by Astroman

Look pretty good there Mike, I am sure your happy with that one, nice and sharp, well done.

Thanks Andrew - definitely happy with it.

Originally Posted by Matt Wastell

Hi Mike
A super image!
It is always nice to continue to improve!

Thanks Matt. Surprisingly all the gear actually worked well on the night. I hadn't used my mount in a while and at first it just didn't turn on, but after moving the connectors around a bit it eventually came to life.
I wish I'd bothered to polar align better (I just plonked it down) so I didn't need to use the hand controller to re-centre the moon so often, but it was nice that I had no issues for once.

Originally Posted by obsidianphotos

Great shot Mike

Thanks Greg!

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Very nice and crisp, and great colour too! Congratulations Mike

Thanks Rolf. Really happy with the colour.

Originally Posted by h0ughy

telescopes make all the difference - nice work mike. camera lenses are duller and not sharp

Yeh I agree Dave. I had a combination of extension tubes and barlows to get the Moon bigger. At the default 480 or 600mm focal length, it only takes up a small portion of the CCD but I was able to get it to fill the frame which makes it much sharper.

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

I'd be very happy with that. (sadly, work had me elsewhere...hence no dice with this eclipse for yours truly)

Sharp, nice dynamic range.

Nice one!

Thanks Pete! The challenge of a jetsetter

Originally Posted by astronobob

Wow, thats a scorcher - In a Great Way, yep ! The Ed 80 is a great performer for full frame lunar work !
A sharp image & Top notch hue richness !

Thanks Bob. I just wish I had an 80mm hydrogen alpha filter to put on the front end

Originally Posted by Jen

yep very nice pic

Thanks Jen

Originally Posted by zardos123

nice to see ya back out on the tools mike, very good shot keep em coming
regards brad

Thanks Brad!

Originally Posted by mswhin63

Lovely sharp stuff Mike

Thanks Malcolm. The seeing definitely helped.

Originally Posted by rogerg

Good on you Mike, looks great

Thanks Roger - did you get some yourself? It was clear over your way!

[jenchris (Jennifer)]

The image is super crisp.
Together with 80mm and your upper atmosphere which must have been pretty stable, it's made a lovely image
It wasn't possible to get that with 8" here. too much turbulence.

[atalas]

Nice work Ice.

[orgasmictomato (Jim)]

Mike, why do you have the moon orientated 90 degrees clockwise? in your photo, any reason?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/orgasmictomato/6487512799/ this is my shot and it is orientated as shot, not from a telescope. Canon 5D MkII 400mm.
interested as to why the different orientation....
Jim

[iceman (Mike)]

Hi Jim

I didn't rotate my photos, and I didn't orientate the camera to make them come out as seen in the sky - so it's just how I put the camera in on the night.

I didn't think about it at the time In hindsight it would've been good to rotate the camera to match what was seen by eye.

[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

Yeah, I sometimes forget this as well.

[The3rdKind (John)]

Once again Mike, you've triumphed :-)

Excellent photo mate, well done

[iceman (Mike)]

Thanks John, Louie and Jen for the comments.