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who are u kidding? im so jealous of your shots! how did u get it so clear? hmmm praps i never did focus mine properly... probably shouldnt have used ido 1600 - was trying to avoid motion blur. hmmm
whens the next one? 2011? lol
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taken with the kit lens (300mm).....might have better glass come 2011 :)
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bugger and damn, I managed to break my tripod, after about four very average shots. damn damn damn
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Hopefully I won't have a maths exam the same time as the eclipse in 2011 :P
(although i did see it at it's reddest as I walked out)
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This is the only shot I managed to get before breaking my tripod. Bugger.
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Looks like Bart beat me to the montage idea...
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First Attemp...had no idea what I was doing and was going to ditch the idea after reading the other thread and not having a clue about infinity focus LOL
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Brilliant, guys! Absolutely!
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This is just on the kit lens (Sigma 300mm) that came with my Pentax:
(No eclipse on this one but it was the best-focused one I took :P )
(no particular order)
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My effort... aiming for "as the eye sees it".
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Guys, your photos are amazing!
I envy you...
My story is that everything was ready for capturing the amazing eclipsed moon rise in red... yes, I'm in perth now...
However, for the hour and half I watched they sky, I could see only
a "total eclipse", since it was cloudy and raining! Me and my friend sat on the bench holding an umbrella looking east :) At least we had a good coffee afterwards...
Around 8:30 I could see the moon between the clouds, but it was a "normal" full moon...
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Towards the end of the eclipse (and possibly the sharpest of the shots I took all evening...)
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this group certainly has the goods. Some interesting techniques used, not to mention some fine glass. I could only expect mediocre results by placing my Nikon/Tamron combo on a rolled up blanket on a wheelie bin (hence the non-linear progression)....
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Aurora looniarus
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Taken from Red Hill with Spunmonkey and Miss Sonia
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~ian edited this topic 71 months ago.
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I am not so disappointed with my shots now.
I was having sharpness issues - but thats just the nature of astrophotography sans expensive glass or a telescope.
Yay for me.
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Couldn't wait to post my shots - then i saw these.
Well done guys - i have a lot to learn.
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What a great spectacle. Our neighbours kids were totally blown away - especially by the colour change !
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Some images from Red Hill - thanks to Splinter who kept me company!
Images taken with 350D at prime focus of Celestron Nexstar5 (effectively a 1250mm lens at F10). Very little post processing, not even sharpening.
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Patrick Keogh edited this topic 71 months ago.
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DaNmAn are you actually going to post any......i haven't seen any of yours yet
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With apologies to Bart and David...
I really didn't steal your 'arrange in moon photos in an arc' idea but when it comes to arranging a montage there really aren't many choices... :-)
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Hi everyone. I didn't get to go up red hill for the eclipse. Saw it from my back yard. Here is one photo. I have more uploaded.
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Here is another one.
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Excellent photos from everyone. Wow.
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Not being the biggest fan of posyting my crappy photos - these are for the benefit of freefocus, so here are my crap renditions.
Before
During..
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Great images all. I actually had to go to a CPS Committee meeting that night :)
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one more.
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Patrick (half-way up the thread) - looks like you're the only one getting a sharp "dark" moon - I guess your telescope was tracking? The rest of us had half or quarter-second exposures and it's surprising how far the moon moves in that time! Well taken.
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Here's a couple of my basic shots not as amazing as some of the others posted here!
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aardvaark,
Yes I was tracking. Wasn't bothering about too much tracking accuracy because my exposures were mostly under five seconds, so I just did a rough polar alignment which was clearly good enough. I wasn't even bothering too much to increase ASA! But five seconds would still be enough to ruin an image from a "static" tripod.
My advantages were threefold:
- BIG aperture. 5".
- tracking
- good location (in the wind shelter of the restaurant on Red Hill) thanks to the suggestion of Splinter, on a decent tripod.
Ok, so an Alt-Az scope is not the most flexible of telephoto lenses. I certainly won't lump it along with my 100-400, but for events like this it is a comparatively affordable "super telephoto". Has the advantage that I can drop in an eyepiece and go stargazing as well.
Happy to trot it out one night for Canberra flickerites to have a go at (if you have a Canon or bring your own t-ring).
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I'd love to see how the telescope works - how it mates with the camera etc. so if you are willing I'm up for it. Does it work with daytime terrestrial subjects (i.e. birds, I mean :))? Pls let me know if you do organise a show and tell, my monitoring of discussions is appalling - I keep forgetting.
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Yes it would work for terrestrial subjects, but the pointing of a telescope is really optimised for slow moving objects. It is slow but very accurate. So if a bird moves it would take you a while to reacquire it.
I'll try to keep an eye out for day time events. Sunspots and solar flares look good (you need special hardware to look at the sun but I have that).
Other than that, maybe the next decent comet (could be years).
I can do deep space photography (galaxies, nebulae etc.) but it is technically much more challenging and time consuming.
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