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Clouds were predicted, clouds there were, so sadly I put away my cameras and telescopes and diverted my attention to other projects indoors. It was rather a shock to step outside for some fresh air and discover it had cleared off (somewhat) with Moon and stars visible and the eclipse underway.
I scrambled to throw something together. I put a very wide angle lens on a mirrorless camera to record a timelapse of the Moon crossing the sky. Instead of fooling around with a telescope, I pulled out my point-n-shoot superzoom camera and let it do the closeups, starting out handholding it, then transferring it to a photo tripod. This post documents what I got with the superzoom and part 2 will document the other camera.
#1: Photos before the eclipse's midpoint.
#2. Maximally eclipsed Moon next to the Pleiades and Hyades.
#3: Maximally eclipsed Moon using different exposures.
#4: Photos after the midpoint.
Photo data:
-- Panasonic FZ300 superzoom camera, handheld or on photo tripod.
-- Exposures range from 10 sec for stars to 1/800 sec when the Moon was bright; ISO 200.
-- Shot in P (program) mode with -2 EV exposure compensation for bright Moon
and M (manual) mode around mid-eclipse when the Moon was dark.
-- 600mm EFL for closeups of the Moon, 100-200mm EFL for star fields.
-- Processed in Paint Shop Pro.
Photographer's website:
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