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Noticed clear skies in Sydney for an hour or more tonight around 9pm whilst heading home from Moksha Indian Restaurant in Jannali. As soon as I got home I went outside onto the balcony and got a few shots off (pre-eclipse of course) before the cloud moved in.
No fancy equipment for me I'm afraid; hand-held 18-200mm. Used a bag of rice on the patio table as my 'bean bag'.
before eclipse by tcdevelop, on Flickr
Right now it's about 99% overcast and not looking much better for the next hour or so.
Last edited by tcdev; 11-12-2011 at 1:35am.
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Huge storm out in far NW QLD tonight, lots of cloud, and the moon didn't look all that great. Shot a few at 800mm ISO 3200-6400 to get 1/200 @ f/8. I stood out there for almost 2 hours, and the cloud just never went away....
A quick and dirty processing of the moon from Sydney at 1:08 am this morning....
Red Moon 11 Dec 2011 - 01 by peterb666, on Flickr
Settings were 1 second at f/8 and ISO400, Nikon D90 and Sigma 150-500mm @ 500mm and heavily cropped.
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looks a lot better than my attempt's peter what are the shot details please
Over cast all night here. I kept going out and checking but I never even SAW the moon!
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I headed out a few times during the night, and the moon was either obscured by clouds, obscured by trees, or not red.
I missed it this year. Was otherwise occupied, so I didn't have a chance to give it proper attention.
Oh well. I've got until 2014 to prepare for the next occurrence...
Jo and I went down to the park to play with the moon. My shots are here...
I learnt a lot from the exercise and I am looking forward to 2014.
One of the main issues you would have noticed is how dark the moon is (from a camera's perspective) once it's fully red.
An unobscured full moon is otherwise very bright, and you can easily achieve a sufficiently fast shutter speed to avoid any slight motion blur. When the moon is red, you need a slower shutter speed to expose it correctly, but you run the risk of slight motion blur. Increasing the ISO is a way around this.
What you also would have noticed when framing the moon is that it moves quickly. The longer your focal length, the more pronounced the movement, so again shutter speed becomes very important.
That I found. The best shots were those that were no longer than 1 second. I was shooting at ISO400 most of the time but the next one I will try ISO800 and maybe even 1600.
Last edited by peterb666; 11-12-2011 at 11:58am.
That was my experience during the 2007 red moon.
I was happy with my image given the circumstances, but being the perfectionist I am, I'm not 100% happy with it, as some softness is apparent from the movement of the moon.
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