ActuallY I saw it for about 45 minutes ... but no colors.. up to where
it became a very thin ")" - I did make anattempt with the 55-300
but using my dressmaker dummy as a tripod and I'msure all I got ws a
fuzzy cresent .. then the clouds rolled in..
saw a faint glimmer of reddish color around 11 but no shape.. but on the
local news this morning I saw some neat shots locals got from
different vantage points than mine... although not far - I probably
should have stayed by the bedroomwindow - wasn't up to going to the roof
it gets a little difficult to navigate for me these days. Bummer... I
saw the last oneat least. 18 years... to the next one.. if I get to 96
I'll probably need someone to hold my head up
ann
On 9/28/2015 1:02 AM, Knarf wrote:
I walked along the lake for about a 1/2 hour, hoping the light clouds would
lift, but they didn't. Gave up, went home. About midnight I brought the garbage
out and there it was: about 1/4 obscured by the earth's shadow.
Quite spectacular!
Like Ann, I don't have the equipment to do anything about it, but at least I
saw it. 'T'was pretty cool.
And earlier, after a significant dry spell, I got a few okay street shots
today. Can't wait to look at them on a big monitor and process a few...
Cheers,
frank
On 27 September, 2015 11:59:12 PM EDT, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
LOvely to get to see the colors - glad you and Paul got us something
anyway...
ann
On 9/27/2015 11:44 PM, P.J. Alling wrote:
I went out to try to shoot the Super Moon/Eclipse and I've given up
on
the photography at least. Not a total bust, but there seem to be
high
clouds obscuring any detail. I tried to use the SMC Pentax M*300mm
f4.0, my copy of which is a bit sharper than the A*300 I also have
was
also a bust. coupled with the 1.7x AF adapter the camera thought the
moon should be in focus but they all looked like the image I'm going
to post just because I tried. It's not good, but I did make the
attempt.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20superbloodmoon.html
Equipment: Pentax K-5II w/vmc Vivitar Series 1 600mm Solid
Catadioptric f8.0 and smc Pentax F 1.7x AF Adapter.
Note: There was so little light the K-5II just simply refused to try
to focus with the AF adapter and the Solid Cat lens mounted, I had to
force it to focus to infinity with a different lens then mount the
camera onto the Solid cat which was mounted on the tripod. Lest
anyone thing this might be the reason for the bad focus, every shot
with every lens combination whether manual or auto focused looked
pretty much like the one posted, just smaller on the frame. I do
kind
of like it as an abstract, but I really wish that I had captured more
detail.
On 9/22/2015 3:18 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
From an email I received this afternoon:
Total Lunar Eclipse!
On the evening of September 27th, skywatchers throughout North
America
will be treated to one of nature’s grandest celestial sky shows – a
total eclipse of the Moon. And unlike the one in April which
occurred
in the early predawn hours, this one will happen during convenient
evening ones.
This cosmic spectacular begins with the full Moon entering the
Earth’s
dark inner shadow (the “umbra”) at 9:06 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time
and
continuing to become ever-more fully immersed in it for the next
hour.
Totality itself will start at 10:11 p.m. EDT and last more than an
hour until 11:23 EDT, after which the Moon begins to slowly emerge
from the cone of darkness in reverse order. Adding to the beauty of
the overall scene at this eclipse (especially during totality
itself,
while the sky is dark), the Moon will be accompanied by some of the
early rising bright winter stars. (Use your Scientifics’ Star and
Planet Locator to identify them)
There are several interesting things to notice as you watch this
event
unfold. Most obvious are the darkness of the eclipsed Moon and the
range of colors displayed, both of which vary from one eclipse to
another. These depend on the clarity of the Earth’s atmosphere at
the
time, which refracts or bends sunlight around into the umbral
shadow.
There have actually been eclipses so dark that the Moon remained
all-but invisible during totality — and ones so pale that you had to
look carefully to see that there was even an eclipse in progress!
Among the colors that have been seen are shades of reddish-orange,
brown, copper, rose, and even blood-red. Notice, too, that the
Earth’s
shadow is curved at all phases of the eclipse, as the Moon passes
through it. This is direct proof that the Earth itself is round —
something recognized by many early skywatchers. And finally, realize
that you’re actually seeing our lovely satellite move eastward in
its
orbit — as it first passes into, through, and then out of the shadow
at roughly its own diameter each hour.
While lunar eclipses can certainly be enjoyed with the unaided eye
alone (as they have been throughout most of history!), they are
best-seen in binoculars. An ideal pair for this would be a 7×50 or
10×50 glass, the first number indicating its magnification and the
second the aperture in millimeters. Telescopes themselves, with
their
relatively narrow fields of view, typically don’t provide enough sky
coverage around the Moon to get the full effect of its globe being
suspended in space. An exception here, however, is Scientifics’
amazing Astroscan wide-field reflecting telescope. Providing a
3-degree actual field of view at it low magnification of 16x, it
takes
in an astounding six full-Moon-diameters of sky — something many
have
described as looking through the porthole of a spaceship!
—James Mullaney
Former assistant editor at Sky & Telescope magazine and author of 10
books on stargazing.
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
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