Lunar Eclipse - photos
As I have mentioned earlier, there was a lunar eclipse. Unfortunately, I was unable to get away from the light poluted skies of New York, and so I spend the 4 hours in the backyard. Here are some highlights…
It was quite cloudy during the first half of the eclipse, so the “darkening” shots look pretty bad.
21:09:39
22:45:02
I got a little bored, so I tried to take a photo of the Orion Nebula. Not quite all that good :) Even the 30 second exposure shows noticable amount of rotation of the Earth.
22:50:49
It was quite difficult to get a good shot of the part of the moon still in the shadow. This was a 1 second exposure, f/5.6. From the noise, I guess it was at least ISO 800…I’m a bit too lazy to check :)
22:52:56
But I tried again….
22:55:52
…and again.
But, if I resize the image to 50% of the original size, it doesn’t look all that bad!
00:09:21
Aaaaand, here’s what the moon looked like after the whole thing. Back to normal :) 1/500 second exposure at f/9 with ISO 200.
