There might be a bit of twist from having to adjust the ball head between shots
to keep the moon in the frame.
Just looking up at the moon while I was waiting for the next shot from the
timer, the shadow appeared to start at about 8 o'clock and creep up to where the
last of the direct sunlight disappeared at 2 o'clock, but when the shadow
started to disappear the first of the direct light appeared about 11 o'clock and
the final shadow disappeared from the 5 o'clock position.
Looks like the last two in the upper right may be rotated a little.
Now that I think about it, the earth's shadow must have been a much larger
circle than the moon and the moon passed through the upper half of the shadow.
The earth's rotation makes the moon appear to move from east to west, but I
think the moon must orbit west to east?
The way I did the composite the sequence has the moon moving from lower left to
upper right during the eclipse and now that I think about it, the sequence
should probably be from right to left to accurately represent the movement of
the moon through the earth's shadow.
I'll have to think about this some more and maybe work up a more accurate
composite.
On 1/23/2019 20:43:05, Larry Colen wrote:
Has has been said, that's a very nice composite.
Did you position each shot in the frame. or is that how they all showed up in
the same camera position?
They look like if they were in the opposite order the shadows on the moon would
almost draw a circle .
John wrote on 1/22/19 8:52 AM:
So, I went out and stood in what felt like an Arctic Wind for 3 hours or so
and took pictures of the moon. As usual, the instructions for how to do it
right were at home on my desk waiting so I could find out everything I did wrong.
Still, I didn't muff it as badly as I did the Solar Eclipse in 2017.
https://flic.kr/p/2ehuNSE
K-1, Tokina AT-X Pro 80-200mm f/2.8 @ 200mm & F/16, ISO 100, various wrong
shutter speeds so I didn't catch much of the red tint.
I was in town when I took these, right next to the parking lot for a city
park. Raleigh, Cary & Wake County have been installing new LED street lights
that don't cause as much light pollution as the old lighting.
I've noticed it a couple of times in the last year or so, driving back to
Raleigh on the Interstate late some night when it's overcast there's less of a
bubble of light over the city.
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