Eclipse Pics
 

Guess who let his inner science nerd run free tonight...

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The quality isn't the best, I missed the start, there was condensation on the lens for the last few, but it was a bit of fun...

Coolness! I can't believe I didn't even know about it. Darnit.

That must have really freaked the ancients.

OH, cool!! I got up at 4:20 to watch it this morning! So, you all in Oz saw it, too? I thought northern and sourthern hemispheres couldn't see it at the same time? But, hey, I've no Inner Geek, so... ;)

I heard it was coming, and usually go for this kind of stuff, but when I heard it was 4AM or some such nonsense I put it out of my mind.

Props to Brianna for getting out of bed for it that early.

Saw the last one, missed this one. The next one is in Feb Bri. Put it on your calendar. Though it might be a bit cold in Ohio for some outdoor photography.

Thanks for the shots Hagar!

On the east coast it ended a few minutes after sunrise.

Eclipse Pics
 

Wow....Fabulous photos.......Thank you very much......
I wanted to see it again.......

WE watched it from our back verandah. It was pretty cool.

Bump.

If you are in North America and are reading this right now (10PM Eastern time), go out and look at the moon. It's in total eclipse at the moment.

i tried.....and failed....its all white blurs

Link isn't workin'....

Here are two of the best from our front porch last night.

Pic 01 -- You can see Regulus at 12 o'clock relative to the moon, and Saturn at 8 o'clock.

Pic 02 -- A closer view of Luna.

Two more moonshots.

Pic 01 -- My best from the August 2007 eclipse. It was this red in real life then, and last night too. But I have been monkeying with the white balance and other settings on the camera, and the effects can be seen here.

Pic 02 -- This is a non-digital zoom from the same camera taken Sunday night. As you can see, the moon is waxing gibbous, unlike the previous post where it is full. What makes this shot interesting for me is that to get such a large clear image (with my pocket camera 6x optical zoom), I borrowed my friend's binoculars. I held the lens barrel of the camera firmly to the eyecup of the binoculars and then searched madly for the moon. Freeze. Snap (while still frozen). Voila! I think it turned out great! Certainly far far better than the majority of my other photos of the moon.

Didn't anyone else take pictures of the eclipse? Please post them if you have them. :)

I just knew one of you would be kind enough to post some photos! It was overcast here. :(

Thanks V!!
:)

You're welcome! It was overcast in Seattle, too. But only for the beginning and the end of the eclipse. It was still cool looking, but not clearly the moon, and there were no stars to be seen when the clouds rolled in.

While it was clear, it was so clear and so dark that I could see the Milky Way from our front porch. It was pretty awesome. It watched a couple satellites traverse the sky and I even got some nice shots of the stars.

Shooting the night sky is difficult. I have had a very few shots turn out good enough to share. These here are among my best. I have some pics of stars that were pretty good too.

OK. I'll post them, but I'm not so happy with them.

The first is exposed for the moon in shadow. The second is exposed for the moon in sunlight. It was really cold out, and I wasn't patient enough to make sure I got a good shot. Oh well.

It was beautiful. I watched the majority of it.

It snowed from 2pm till about 7pm, then was clear as a bell by 8pm. Good viewing, but I was at work so no pictures.

I saw this one from a plane somewhere over Georgia. Pretty awesome at that height. No bright lights to obstruct my view.

[lazy]I shoulda grabbed the camera. I was out milking the goat during it.[/bum]

Here's a good one from Maine, found on Wunderground.

Boyfriend took me out to see it, we watched it on top of a hill in his truck...cool stuff but I don't have the camera equipment to get any photos of it...sorry cellar :(

How could you tell through those steamed up windows?

Windows weren't steamed I assure you...we froze our asses off..(through many layers of winter clothes!) to watch it...in the snow...brr. We only watched the middle part...as it became fully eclipsed and then started to move off again...cause we were sissies and drove back to his nice warm house. lol

Sadly I was thinking of YOU guys while I was out...wishing I had better camera equipment for it. Sigh.