Hi All,


Here it is (minutes old)fresh off the 6" F8 Cave scope from my backyard in Dayton, Ohio USA,

After the snow storm dumped 6" off powder on us it finally cleared in time for the Lunar eclipse!!!!! Yeah!!!!

a 2.5 second exposure at ISO 400 with Modified Canon 20D DSLR

I'll be posting more here later,

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Hi
GREAT shot, I just came in as well and I am freezing, hands are Numb cant even type

I am in the process of uploading my shots and will be posting here later.
One question, I have the t mount adapter that comes with the barlow lens on it, the barlow does not allow me to take a shot like yours (the whole moon) I can only get magnified shots. When I take the barlow off, the image does not focus, it only focuses with the barlow on, how do I get around this
Any help is appreciated

Thanks
Gina (Starchild615)

Very nice shot. We got some shots of clouds, with the moon peaking through.

hha

Nice shot Galactic. The whole thing looked awesome here in Cincinnati!

What a gorgeous shot!

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Hi All,

Here is another shot with a 125mm telephoto lens on a tripod, showing Lunar Totality with Saturn and Regulus.

.5 sec exposure at F5.6 and ISO 400, Canon 20D DSLR.

This was a very pretty eclipse nicely framed between a bright planet and a bright star.

But it was only 4 degrees F here, it was one of the coldest eclipses I remember in years.

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I'm jealous. You had a great sky. Nice pics.

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Here is my 3 image sequence photo, as promised earlier in this thread.

I'm still thawing out from last nights 4 degree temps, but was lucky and got pretty clear skies for this eclipse.



Thanks to everyone for your kind comments, I hope you all got to see the eclipse!

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Thanks for these great images! It was cloudy here. I get to live vicariously through you!

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Hi John.
Well done. Your photos are very nice. With the weather the way it is lately Im glad you captured some photos. Good stuff clear skies to you Paul.

I managed to watch the whole thing from the top of a mountain in Austria after skiing

Nice. That's about how it looked from Mystic.

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Beautiful shots John, I really like the sequence

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You have some very nice shots of the eclipse John. A super fine job there sharp and the colors are spot on. Welldone and clear skies.