Last night's Lunar Eclipse

brokenwave

Well Known Member
Thx, I used my Panasonic FZ1000 bridge camera, 1" sensor at 200mm, 2-3 secs, f4, ISO 400. I cropped it about 20% in Photoshop.

I wedged the camera against my column on my patio to keep it steady because I didn't bring my tripod and the wind was blowing
10 mph with gusts at 4:30am. My 1st few shots had movement in them at 15 seconds. I wasn't expecting an almost total eclipse here in Cholla, because the expert articles (LOL) showed the western US only having a partial one.
Here's what I saw when I looked out my patio door to the west,

it's got movement but gives you an idea of how nicely surprised I was to see this.

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brokenwave

Well Known Member
When I saw this at 4:10ish AM, I knew I needed to take some pic's and I really wanted to go back to sleep. But I did the right thing.
 
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