back in focus » moon http://www.brunomaestrini.com/blog A weblog about photography Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:08:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 © contact@brunomaestrini.com () contact@brunomaestrini.com A weblog about photography contact@brunomaestrini.com No no http://www.brunomaestrini.com/focus/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg back in focus http://www.brunomaestrini.com/blog 144 144 Photographing a lunar eclipse http://www.brunomaestrini.com/blog/2008/02/26/photographing-a-lunar-eclipse/ http://www.brunomaestrini.com/blog/2008/02/26/photographing-a-lunar-eclipse/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:20:13 +0000 Bruno Maestrini http://www.brunomaestrini.com/blog/2008/02/26/photographing-a-lunar-eclipse/

Last Wednesday there was a lunar eclipse. Here in the south of Brazil, the moon was completely hidden around midnight.

I snapped this shot from my apartment balcony at 11:18, before the eclipse was total. I used a 500mm mirrored Tokina lens, with fixed f/8, speed 1/160 and ISO 200. My Nikon D70 was mounted on a tripod. No cropping and no Photoshop used – except for resizing and recompressing.

I wanted to get a clear shot of Saturn, that was made visible by the eclipse, so I took some long exposures (which I promise to publish soon), leaving the moon one big ball of light. When the eclipse was complete, its easier to see the other elements in the sky. I thought of maybe overlaying both pics in Photoshop to get a clearer view of every thing.

Sorry for not posting more of the eclipse photos, but I wanted to start writing right away and not delay this blog any longer. Promise I’ll post them as soon as I get back home in Porto Alegre.

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