This is the eclipsed Moon near the middle of the eclipse. Note the deep orange-brown color, caused by the light scattered around the Earth's atmosphere that reaches the Moon. This image was taken at 300mm focal length with an exposure of 2 seconds at f/5.6, ISO 800. Note the trailing in the stars that are visible in this image. The lunar image is also smeared by that amount from top left to bottom right so that the image appears fuzzy, especially in that direction.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Lunar Eclipse - near mid-eclipse
This is the eclipsed Moon near the middle of the eclipse. Note the deep orange-brown color, caused by the light scattered around the Earth's atmosphere that reaches the Moon. This image was taken at 300mm focal length with an exposure of 2 seconds at f/5.6, ISO 800. Note the trailing in the stars that are visible in this image. The lunar image is also smeared by that amount from top left to bottom right so that the image appears fuzzy, especially in that direction.
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nice image! did you use tripod? or...
I wish I could handhold a 2 second exposure that well.... :-) Definitely used a tripod.
hmmmm.... but why the picture is so blurry compared to your previous shot? I expected that you'd used something instead of a tripod...
It's blurred because it's a 2 second exposure - note the trailed stars also in the frame. The Moon is about 350 pixels across, so each pixel is about 5 arcseconds across, so 2 seconds is about 6 pixels of trailing.
now I see :)
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