Lunar Eclipse on the Winter Solstice

[Pandabean]

Snapped a few of these this morning. They were taken with a 250mm Canon lens on a EOS 400D. Its times like these you wish you had that larger lens if you could afford it. Saw one being sold for 20 grand once.

These are 100% crops and the best I could get them, took me a little bit of time to get the settings right, photographing the moon isn't as easy as you may think.


LunarEclipse by pandabean2010, on Flickr


LunarEclipse1 by pandabean2010, on Flickr


LunarEclipse2 by pandabean2010, on Flickr



LunarEclipse4 by pandabean2010, on Flickr


LunarEclipse5 by pandabean2010, on Flickr


LunarEclipse6 by pandabean2010, on Flickr

 

[Mesquite]

Great set of pics PB

 

[Nagual]

Nice pics. What were the settings you ended up using?

 

[Shewie]

Great piccies, I never tire of looking at moon shots, there's always something you've not noticed before.

The moon tonight was pretty spectacular too, at around 16:30 it looked like a huge ball of fire in the sky

 

[Nagual]

Great piccies, I never tire of looking at moon shots, there's always something you've not noticed before.

The moon tonight was pretty spectacular too, at around 16:30 it looked like a huge ball of fire in the sky

Yup, amazing wasn't it..

 

[Pandabean]

I had the camera on shutter priotity mode and used 1/80 for the shutter, added +2 for over exposure and the f was 5.6 unfortunately. That was for one of them, the rest were taken at about 1/15. The ISO I kept delibrately low (1-200) to reduce the noise, took one at ISO 1600 and it was too grainy/noisy. These are probably not the best settings but the best I could work out while my hands and feet were freezing.

I started to loose it towards the end as you can see.

 

[Nagual]

Cheers for that bit of info

 

[Nonsuch]

Nice job - difficult to do without blurring. Now a picture of the "red" eclipsed moon - that would be something
NS

 

[PaulSanderson]

those are some stunning pics!! brilliant to see the eclipse on the solstice of all days...thanks for sharing...

 

[Weesi]

Great pics bud. Really good job there!...

Simon

 

[Leonidas]

Great photography, thanks for sharing

Tom

 

[Rebel]

Nice pics. I saw nothing but clouds here.

 

[Melonfish]

Lunar eclipse on the solstice? omen for sure, no idea how to interpret it mind.
Fantastic pics, i guess i didn't miss it after all

 

[Jericho]

Nice pics. I saw nothing but clouds here.

I was hoping to get a few pics of the eclipse but, same here

Awesome pix!

 

[Pandabean]

Lunar eclipse on the solstice? omen for sure, no idea how to interpret it mind.
Fantastic pics, i guess i didn't miss it after all

Perhaps a party at a stone circle and a sacrifice is required for the Gods to speak more?

I was surprised how they came out despite them being 100% crops.

 

[gowersponger]

i no a few wiccan people that are loveing this , nice pics mate