We had two total Lunar eclipses this year, one on 15 April and the other tonight 8 Oct. This is the last total Lunar eclipse for a while, the next is 31 Jan 2018, and we luckily found a gap in patchy cloud cover to see the eclipse just as it finished totality at 10pm, and watch the shadow slip away for a while.
Got to use my new tripod for the first time and snapped a few photos, mostly using the 200mm zoom, 4 seconds at f5.7 (the minimum available at 200mm)
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| The gear aimed at the Lunar eclipse |
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| Not a bad shot |
When a plane came over, I managed to adjust the camera just in time to capture this...
As I was mucking around with the camera, L was enjoying the view through the telescope and then had a go at getting some shots on my mobile.
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| Totality just slipping away |
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As a happy bonus, while I was researching on Stellarium I noticed that Uranus would be near the Moon at the time of the eclipse. Maybe...
It seemed to be in the right position, and even though the light pollution and cloud and atmospherics made it a bit blurry - I'm sure that the bluey green target on the left was a disk, and not a point source. So I'm claiming that as my first sighting of Uranus through my own telescope (I once got to look at it through one of the telescope up on Mt Stromlo when having a tour once)
And then the clouds rolled back in, and we were done for the evening.
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