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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 and laid it down on a patio table pointing straight up to record a timelapse of the Moon crossing overhead. A superzoom camera substituted for a telescope. This post documents the all-sky camera and part 1 documents the superzoom.
I oriented the camera so that the Moon would travel along the camera frame's diagonal. But in my haste I miscalculated the path, and instead the Moon headed for the nearest edge. To make it less obvious what a klutz I was, for display I reoriented the path vertically. The result looks curiously like a luminous glowworm making its way up the screen. My wife thinks it looks like the bones in one's spine. The actual progress of the eclipse is down. Frames were taken 5 minutes apart using the camera's built-in intervalometer, and although each frame's exposure was fixed, it was designed to be correct during mid-eclipse when the Moon was darkest.
Photo data:
-- Panasonic GX8, Laowa C&D Dreamer 10mm f/2 lens, laid down on a table pointing up.
-- 48 frames x (f/4, 1 sec, ISO 800), but the Moon was in only 32 of them.
-- Image assembled in startrails.exe and processed in Paint Shop Pro.
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