Eclipse
Added 2022-11-08 09:56:03 +0000 UTCAs much of the Lunar Eclipse as I could see - before the Moon was eclipsed by the skyline....
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I got quite a good picture of the partial solar eclipse that was visible here in the uk a couple of weeks ago, using an apsc dslr with a 600mm lens and solar filter.
David Peaker
2022-11-08 20:47:56 +0000 UTCThat was great! It reminded me of when I put a 2400mm lens on a video camera and shot the moon. The moon took up the entire screen. The lens could not zoom, so actually finding the moon with it on the tripod was very difficult. When I did catch the moon, I could see a great amount of lunar surface details. But like your eclipse clip demonstrated, the moon moves very quickly. What's harder is it moves diagonally. The best I could do was find the moon, then position the camera so the moon would track diagonally through the frame. It was a super clear night and the results were fantastic, but I learned, or re-learned, just how dynamic the Earth and moon move at different rates and my latitude in St. Louis was too far north for the moon, or sun, to rise perfectly straight. I know there are automated systems that are able to steer a camera at the moon and track it perfectly. I think it's called a theodolite and NASA used them to track and film shuttle launches. I didn't have all that cool stuff. Recorded on Super-VHS in 1988, the result was the expected blurry, noisy analog video that is the world of NTSC. Still, it was fun at the time and youe clip really brought back memories.
Matt Wietlispach
2022-11-08 14:29:54 +0000 UTC
