6/16/11 Lunar Eclipse Images from a newbie

[relativity_principle]

These are from a poor old 3.2MP point and shoot

I'll try to stay up late and never fall asleep,

and hope the skies remains clear in the wee hours

so I could wait for the moon to turn red.

[Stargazer Jack]

Even though you may not have the best camera, they are some great images and I look forward to seeing your eclipse ones

[Telrad]

relativity_principle These are some nice lunar images, I particularly like the third one.. Thanks for posting!

[relativity_principle]

Hello Stargazer Jack and Telrad:

Thanks for that much.

Hope the skies remains clear in the next few more hours.

I'm sleeeepy.............

[nightfisher]

thanks for posting, very good

[relativity_principle]

Today I finally realized:

• Need to save to get a good camera
  
• Need to have a universal digital camera adapter
  
• Need to learn to drink coffee to stay awake
  
• or better yet - just subscribe to NASA Hubble images or to nightfisher's page on Stargazers Lounge and who knows - he might consider selling his TAL 100RS to me in the future
  

[relativity_principle]

Finally....

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[nightfisher]

tal wont be for sale, the 102 f10 evostar might be coming on the market in some weeks, when the head to head is finished, and thanks for the nice comment

[Venus_is_my_friend]

Awesome set of image, both eclipse and full moon. Execellent work!

[RedCoat]

Great job!

[astroeddie]

excellent captures. Nice detail in the eclipsed moon. Not easy to do.

Congrats. Ed

[QldLiz]

Beautiful set of images!!

[Multi-Coated]

Good images , well done.

[relativity_principle]

Wow! Thank you to all!

who could have imagined a simple thing like this would solicit any notes from esteemed people here.

All I ever wanted to do was,

see the moon turns to red and take some afocal

with my poor and old 3.2 PowerShot

and my shaking hands.

Apart from that,

I tried not to fall asleep, but couldn't keep my eyes open at all times.

I never actually expected it to be that hard, really.

AND it was hard.

I thought i could capture the full moon in all red, but maybe

weather and equipment matters.

"When the going gets tough,

the going gets rough."

On the bright note, these were taken with a Japanese 6" mirror f/5

but using bare hands instead of a fixed universal digital camera adapter,

I had to go around the telescope in circle, to angle the camera in all ways.

Anyway, thanks to all.

See you again in the next total lunar eclipse.

If I didn't fall asleep

God speed everyone!

[dodgeydodge]

google streamed the eclipse live last night, i watched and took screen shots every few mins. here is what i managed to put together!