A lunar eclipse and a bloody moon
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A lunar eclipse happens when the earth is between the sun and a full moon.
Last night, 28th August, was the lunar eclipse and it was a truly amazing sight. My neighbours set up their telescope, and with a set of binoculars, various cameras and a few drinks we were comfortably set up for a couple of hours to view the night-sky. What a great way to experiment with night-time photography!
Through the telescope
The moon looked spectacular through the telescope. It was extremely bright at first as the shadow appeared, and so I used a low exposure -2.0. With the camera lens directly against the telescope eye-glass, I was quite surprised at how well these turned out.
Only the eyes and nose of the Man In The Moon are visible here. I set the exposure quite high.
After this it became difficult to get a photo of the moon through the telescope using the camera. I played around with the light levels in the new iPhoto on this next one to give you an idea of what it was looking like.
Using the tripod
I changed tact and set the camera to the ‘night’ setting, put the exposure up as high as it would go and popped it onto my tripod. The blood red (or rather, orange) moon looked quite surreal - it took on a 3D quality as the colour changed.
I put the large image sizes on Flickr.
How did your photos turn out?
