lunar eclipse with star

I was very disappointed with the pictures i took of the elipse. Far too noisy and the focus seemed off. So, I took 8 shots with varying exposures and stacked them together. This reduced the noise and gave me a view of the sunlit and eclipsed areas at the same time. I am much happier with this one!

Taken from East Boldre in the New Forest.

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Comments

Mark Berry says:

Great, crisp and the colours are awesome
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Lawl says:

fantastic!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

OmMane says:

Great job. Best on flickr.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

"JONESY" says:

i agree with sam ....there is not a better shot ... well done mate
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

SweetShiwa says:

beautiful shot!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

*omar says:

wow I think it's excellent!
Especially regarding the fact that you were able to pull it off using the same camera I use!

Thanks for tossing it in the group! :D
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

pjeastboldre says:

Nice one Ro. It was definitely worth all the effort.
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

DMC2006 says:

Nice capture, it was an awesome night :-)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

xk8jag2000 says:

Amazing work on this eclipsed moon! Thanks for sharing it so large with us!!
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Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

StefGrove says:

Wow, i love it!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

•pip• says:

gorgeous shot!
good capture =)

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Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

s_h_a_w_n_g_13 says:

awesome shot
The World Through My Eyes
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Sandi Marie says:

Just seen this on Explore! Congrats!

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Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

markkilner says:

That's beautiful - one of the best I've seen on Flickr (and there's a lot of them!).
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

Keith Marshall says:

This is amazing.. I was also taking eclipse photos but I couldn't get anything like this definition in the picture - I should have thought of using HDR or some other way to combine multiple images.
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Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

irdial says:

This is exactly what the eclipse looked like in my telescope from London; its astonishingly hard to capture the correct colors of a lunar eclipse, but this image is perfect.

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Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

johnniemojo says:

absolutely stunnning shot. I also tried to get shots of the eclipse, but failed. Alas, this ALMOST makes up for it.

Wonderful image. U are to be commended!!!!!!
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

johnniemojo says:

By the way. could you give some aspiring photographers some hints on how you did this shot?

Was a telescope used, or was it a Camera alone shot?
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

turfcutter says:

Thanks for the great comments everyone!

This was shot through an 8" dobsonian telescope. 8 shots ranging from 1/100th second to 5 seconds aligned and stacked by hand in photoshop .
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