Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Total

Total lunar eclipse, that is. Here's what it looked like from my front stoop:

8:45pm


9:15pm

my gawd, how cool is it that you can see it's a shadow in this photo? I love my camera (and tripod)!





9:30pm

Gonna have to move my tripod for the next shot - stupid moon moving into the stupid branches

That dot in the lower left is something bright - Saturn? Jupiter? Star? that the etsy folks have noticed.




9:45pm

ooh, spooky!





10pm




10:30pm

11pm

Check out how much the moon has moved in the picture compared to Saturn (lower left) since 10pm:

Compare modes - this one was shot in nighttime:

This one was shot a minute later from the same spot, only in landscape mode:

Now I'm kinda wishing I'd done the rest of them in landscape ... they wouldn't have been as nice and red, but I think the details would have been crisper. Oh, well - I'll file that away in the back of my brain for next time I need to photograph a full lunar eclipse :)

Okay, folks, I'm off to bed. Here's hoping the little girl and her uber-snotty nose let me sleep tonight ...

12 comments:

  1. fabulous!

    thanks for posting these!

    I'm watching it out my window, but still loving your photo updates!

    joyfully,
    kD
    blueyeduckstudios

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  2. That's Saturn! Cool eh?!

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  3. It's 12F outside - it's not cool, it's downright frigid!

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  4. Oooh that's so cool! Great pictures. :)

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  5. Thanks so much for posting these ^-^ We can't see it here, too cloudy, but I'm enjoying watching it via your blog!

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  6. Those are awesome pictures - thanks for sharing! I can't believe you went out in that cold! After standing downtown for 20 minutes freezing waiting for a bus after work, I had no desire to go back out in that cold, LOL!

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  7. Beautiful! I missed most of it, so these pics are a real treat. Go Etsy!

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  8. meet you back here in 2010 for the next one :)

    ~kD

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  9. Anonymous12:14 AM

    Thank you for posting these - they're really beautiful. You should consider making prints of some of them. : )

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  10. Great shots! Thanks for posting them!

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  11. Anonymous9:10 AM

    I really like photo #7. The colors and the other stars/planet make for a nice composition. We were able to find nice views in the breaks between the clouds. But we didn't try photographing.

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