Lunar eclipse

[sfs]

From tonight's lunar eclipse. Here the moon is just entering the Earth's umbra.

And here is the moon, now completely in the umbra, with Saturn and Regulus.

 

[_becca]

Beautiful!! Watching the eclipse tonight was wonderful.. I'm so thrilled to see these

 

[2slippers]

Oh wow, these are awesome. I was going to post mine but these are so much better. What lens did u use?

 

[sfs]

Thanks. I used my Nikkor 70-300, Nikon's upper consumer level telephoto zoom. It's a very sharp lens, with good image stabilization (or VR, as Nikon calls it). I'm pretty sure the first shot was handheld. (I see from the file that the first shot was also taken at 270 mm, which was a mistake: I meant to be shooting at 300. Blame the cold.)

I was mostly taking pictures of the eclipse as an excuse to try out my new used tripod and ballhead, which worked very well, and which I needed for the dim moon shots (e.g. the second picture, which was a three second exposure).

 

[MarkEvan]

Great shots, it was cloudy where I live so we missed it, this makes up for it though.



Mark

 

[Albert_EEE]

the second photo is like a dream... it's like unreal, i love it

 

[cat1]

wow what kind of camera were these taken with? very good pictures

 

[Dragonbait]

I love these, great work!

 

[sfs]

wow what kind of camera were these taken with? very good pictures

Someone's been digging around in old threads . . .

I took the eclipse pictures with a Nikon D70, a camera that was Nikon's first real consumer-level DSLR and which is now two generations out of date (i.e. it's four years old). Nothing special about it -- it just had a sharp lens on it and a good tripod under it.