Total Lunar Eclipse Reports - Bill
Kramer
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Photographing
The Lunar Eclipse
Lunar Eclipse
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Lunar Eclipse
Exposure
August 2007
Lunar Eclipse
February 20, 2008
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Video of eclipse
created by Byron Winchell by using eyepiece projection w/ Nikon S1, Meade AR5 (Achromatic refractor 127mm 1143mm; f/9), Televue 40mm eyepiece, no filters, one exposure per minute from 9:01 to 11:51 PM, cropped to VGA and made into a WMV file.
Byron reports that it was very hard to tell if the tiny screen on the little Nikon point-n-shoot was in focus.
3" Celestron refractor using Fuji 400 print film, 1 second - Ted Saker
Meade 90mm ETX with Canon 30D - Vic Stover
Vic's Report: I setup in the driveway using my car as a warm room with the ETX90 setup outside the passenger side near the laptop. So I could check photos as I downloaded. Later I figured out some of my focus problems came from my USB cable hung out the window across to the scope. I should have used a extension cable down to the ground and back up to the camera to isolate vibration by car and me moving around. The USB cord was like a solid wire in 6deg winter night. Later about 10:30 some how I pulled out the power jack from the mount so that turned out to a good time to finish. The corrector plate was starting to frost. The 1.6 lager frame size using DSLR makes the need for very good polar alignment to get tracking. Not a lot of top and bottom frame to work with.
More images from Vic: Image 1 and Image 2
Meade 90mm ETX with Canon 40D - Mark Pansing - Perkins Observatory
100mm Lens - Saturn to the left, Regulus towards top - Bill Kramer
400mm Lens - Bill Kramer
Questar Telescope Prime Focus - Bill Kramer
