Lunar Eclipse hits on 10/27/04

and it's the last total eclipse until 2007 for those who like to sit out in the cold staring at the sky. I took some pix to share with you all...

Beginning stage of the eclipse
http://community.webshots.com/photo/206 ... 4807vdMLSV

And like 15 minutes later,
http://community.webshots.com/photo/206 ... 2308zTsuqd
(I like the way this pic came out for some reason...the rest of them came out all out of focus[:(!]

Feel free to comment if u want!

Its hard to take pictures of the moon or celestial objects because they move or we move, or both. So that means you need a small exposure time to get the right focus. That, means you need a HUGE super zoom lens (like one of thsoe awesome 1200 or 2400mm lenses..mmm) and those needs HUGE aperatures to suck in alot of light.

I went and took some stills tonight with a 400zoom and I had to do 15 and 30 second exposures. Im betting most of them are blurred but hey, it was worth the shot. I did a few 8's just to see, but thats where I wish I had the Digital Rebel SLR so I Could just switch to like 1600 or 800 ISO and take some sharper shots and just play with it in Photoshop to bring it back from being so grainy....hopefully with a second job Ill have that Digital Rebel and I can do better stuff. I also was a multiplier for my lens to make it an 800....ahhh, so much money, so little hours at work.

[Dirk_Ermen]

damn, y did it happned while my lan party, oh well...

Yeah i tryed to take a pic with my digi cam, and that didn't work so i took out the real cam. lol


It was a Pain in the ass, i am a HUGE RED SOX fan, as you might know, and i wanted to watch the Eclipse. Back and forth
so i finaly brought my CD player out, i listen to the tv with it. and then i got really cold. so i came in. But it was amazing.

i'd rather watch a solar eclipse, but totals are cool too.

It was too cloudy where I was to see it