Lunar Eclipse - peak
9:38:17pm 26/6/2010.
The peak of tonight's partial Lunar Eclipse.
Just a quick crop.
540mm, f/8, 1/250th sec, iso 125. Push a little in post.
View all photos taken: Saturday, 26th June 2010, This photo: 9:38pm
9:38:17pm 26/6/2010.
The peak of tonight's partial Lunar Eclipse.
Just a quick crop.
540mm, f/8, 1/250th sec, iso 125. Push a little in post.
View all photos taken: Saturday, 26th June 2010, This photo: 9:38pm
Nice Dave. My 70-200 couldn't get me close enough for anything with much detail.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/baar01] Yeah, even at 540mm it was really small in the frame. You need around 1200mm to get a really decent sized moon.
To give people an idea how small the moon is at 600mm on a full-frame camera, I can fit seven across and about five down, so 35 moons in the frame.
600mm is tiny. 1,200mm is still too small, but it's a problem I could tolerate having.
Very nice, a few AP and others went up to Mt Coo-tha but we had to contend with on and off cloud.
Excellent detail David!! So the clouds did break for your star trails group hey.
This is great! Very cloudy night tonight where I was, could barely see it. Love the details on the moon though.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/xenedis] I think from when I've tried 1180mm, it was quite a decent size in the frame, but that may have been on the 30D.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/26870747@N04] Yeah I shot the 2007 full eclipse from Mt Coot-tha, it's not a bad spot to shoot from, but cloud was the big issue this evening.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/36021204@N03] 'fraid not Adam, we postponed a couple of days as although it turned out clear for the moon (until 9:45pm or so), it was pretty solid looking south.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/7485184@N02] Luckily there was a nice clear patch for most of the first half here. :)
Nice work Dave. I was shooting out here at one of the lookouts at Prince Henry Drive. I persevered with my 200mm until the clouds got too heavy around 8.50pm. www.flickr.com/photos/paulgoodallphotography/4735240607/
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulgoodallphotography] Thanks Paul. Yours is pretty good given you used almost a third less focal length than I.
It's time I start saving for that 400mm lens, that's a nice shot again Dave.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/11tco] Well an 800mm lens would have been nice ;-)
lol Dave - we always want more dont we (me included )
I was sure I commented on this shot last night but obviously not .. Doh
You did well :-)
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathrine-carter] It's like that Kath, although the 800mm L lens is a wee out of my budget ($15k), so I won't be seeing one of those unless you know someone that wants to buy an house-trained child? ;-)
Nice Work. Next time I will be a tad more prepared.
ohhh wo-ow!!