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waltny
Joined: 16 Jul 2007
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Location: Hill AFB, UT
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| Im loosely planning a trip to the fernhead trailhead in Layton(just got back) . Not sure if I can drag myself out there early enough though. If that falls through Ill find the high spot here on base and do what I can. :ne_nau: |
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Mtnman1830
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:17 am Post subject: |
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cloudy and an ancient camera, but here we go.
I can't wait to see some of the pictures... |
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CarpeyBiggs
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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Location: Fairbanks, AK
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| I got some good stuff, right up until the last half of the partial eclipse, when clouds covered it all up. But for now, I'm off to work on no sleep... Here is one in the meantime... |
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Alex
Joined: 27 Sep 2005
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Location: SLC, UT
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:23 am Post subject: |
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| Doh, I thought it was going to be tonight? |
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davis_b_1
Joined: 04 Feb 2006
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Location: On www.bogley.com
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| Well, here is mine not very good but it all I could get with my camera |
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Win
Joined: 13 Oct 2006
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Location: Toquerville
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:41 am Post subject: |
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Nice shots , Dan. I had a really clear sky but a little too much light pollution. I set up my 60x Pentax spotting scope and enjoyed a nice show.
Saw a couple of really nice shooting stars, too.
Win |
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Richard Barron
Joined: 09 Jul 2005
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Location: Byng, OK, USA
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:06 am Post subject: |
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I didn't shoot it, but Abby (my wife) got up early (she always does anyway) and took a stab at it...
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CarpeyBiggs
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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Location: Fairbanks, AK
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Here's a collage from last night. A few clouds during the last 1/4th of the eclipse, but I was glad to get something out of it. |
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americanhero
Joined: 02 Feb 2007
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Location: Germany/Buffalo,NY
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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CarpeyBiggs wrote: Here's a collage from last night. A few clouds during the last 1/4th of the eclipse, but I was glad to get something out of it.
cool pic!! :2thumbs: But how did you get this kind of collage? What technique have you used for it? |
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waltny
Joined: 16 Jul 2007
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Location: Hill AFB, UT
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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Win wrote: Nice shots , Dan. I had a really clear sky but a little too much light pollution. I set up my 60x Pentax spotting scope and enjoyed a nice show.
Saw a couple of really nice shooting stars, too.
Win
I saw a few of those. I was getting alot of light off of I15 killing what shots I did have and the clouds :frustrated: . I got one or two decent shots early in the evening though. |
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waltny
Joined: 16 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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CarpeyBiggs wrote: Here's a collage from last night. A few clouds during the last 1/4th of the eclipse, but I was glad to get something out of it.
Very nice, what mm you shoot these at? The neighbor hood of 400? |
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waltny
Joined: 16 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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CarpeyBiggs wrote: I got some good stuff, right up until the last half of the partial eclipse, when clouds covered it all up. But for now, I'm off to work on no sleep... Here is one in the meantime...
Got some motion blur or auto focus issues on the middle one.... Expect better from you :nono:
J/K :cool2: |
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CarpeyBiggs
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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waltny wrote:
Got some motion blur or auto focus issues on the middle one.... Expect better from you
Yep, it's because my sensor isn't small enough. A smaller sensor solves everything... :lol8:
But seriously, shooting the moon in totality is nearly impossible without special gear. It is difficult to get a shutter length short enough to stop it's movement in the sky. I think mine was .6 seconds, at ISO 5.6, ISO 1600, and I still had to stack the ones during totality to get a decent exposure, if I wanted to maintain any sharpness. Pretty much any image shot from earth with a static tripod will have the same issues. Impossible to defeat this without faster glass, or faster sensors, or photoshop trickery (stacking images).
If you really wanted to be serious about eclipse photography, you'd mount a celestron on an equatorial tracking mount, so you can the get 6 or 8 second exposures you would need to make a nice image at ISO 100 or 200 with no motion blur. But I don't have any of those lying around, so it's all about compromise.
These were shot at 420 mm (300f4 with a 1.4x), on a Rebel XTi. |
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