For you "lunies"

AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
edited December 24, 2011 in The Big Picture
Total Lunar Eclipse this weekend, last one for a while....
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited December 9, 2011
    It's a West Coast thing this time.
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited December 9, 2011
    I know :cry
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited December 10, 2011
    Andy wrote: »
    I know :cry

    And it's been pretty cold lately too. Can't decide if I'm gonna get up.
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited December 10, 2011
    I'm planning on doing it. I took a drive up the coast today to scope out some spots. I noted there was a pretty good fog bank too a ways out which was disappointing. Now I'm thinking it might be better to shoot from the Santa Cruz mountains, but I'm not sure where I can find a good view of the coast from up there. I've seen spots years ago when I live out here previously, but not sure I can find them on short notice.

    Ian, any ideas? Want to join me? deal.gif
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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,245 moderator
    edited December 10, 2011
    Another link from Phil Plait about the eclipse
    http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/12/09/watch-the-lunar-eclipse-saturday/
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited December 10, 2011
    kdog wrote: »
    I'm planning on doing it. I took a drive up the coast today to scope out some spots. I noted there was a pretty good fog bank too a ways out which was disappointing. Now I'm thinking it might be better to shoot from the Santa Cruz mountains, but I'm not sure where I can find a good view of the coast from up there. I've seen spots years ago when I live out here previously, but not sure I can find them on short notice.

    Ian, any ideas? Want to join me? deal.gif

    It's been hit and miss on the coast lately. Not sure where I'd go. Maybe Mt. Hamilton? Dunno.

    I have things to do tomorrow which is why I'd be iffy at best.
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited December 10, 2011
    Actually, anybody in the bay area who's interested in getting together to shoot it should ping me. Especially if you have a good secret-spot to shoot from. naughty.gif
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited December 10, 2011
    ian408 wrote: »
    It's been hit and miss on the coast lately. Not sure where I'd go. Maybe Mt. Hamilton? Dunno.

    I have things to do tomorrow which is why I'd be iffy at best.
    At 4:00AM? headscratch.gif

    Maybe I'll take the bike out and check out Mt. Hamilton tomorrow.
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited December 10, 2011
    Wait, it's TONIGHT? Oh shoot, I thought it was tomorrow night.
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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,245 moderator
    edited December 10, 2011
    kdog wrote: »
    Wait, it's TONIGHT? Oh shoot, I thought it was tomorrow night.

    Earlier still. Just a few hours away. Just as well we can't see it from here, because it is going to be about 10 degrees F at 4am.
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited December 10, 2011
    Wimp.

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  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,245 moderator
    edited December 10, 2011
    Now if I go posting my photo of -27 from my car, then Ann McRae will next posting the shot from several years ago from her car of how -40 C = -40 F. (can't believe I found that post!)

    But instead, I'll go the other direction with this one from August in Texas.

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited December 10, 2011
    Well, at least I went outside to see the Eclipse. Sadly for me, there's a wispy layer of clouds making any photographs kind of a bust.

    It was cool but not quite what I hoped. Oh, and it's 32.8*F and the temp is still dropping :D
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  • Hikin' MikeHikin' Mike Registered Users Posts: 5,467 Major grins
    edited December 10, 2011
    I guess I'll post my pics here:

    Had to resort to my back-up plan. I wanted to frame the Lunar Eclipse with a local landmark. Didn't work as I thought, so I drove out to another landmark, Lake Yosemite here in town.

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited December 10, 2011
    Really nice, Mike!
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited December 10, 2011
    I agree. Very creative, Mike. I wish I'd done something like that. But we were all socked in here at the coast, and I ended up driving out to the central valley to be able to see anything at all. By the time I got there, I just pointed a big-ass telephoto at it and snapped a few shots. :giggle

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  • novicesnappernovicesnapper Registered Users Posts: 445 Major grins
    edited December 16, 2011
    Can anyone play? Around 5:30 am, 20 degrees, from west of Tulsa OK. I'm not super pleased with this, but here it is. I was using some Canon stiching software I hadn't used before. Hope the image isn't to big. T1i with a 250 IS zoom.
    It may be to small to really see.

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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited December 16, 2011
    The progression is pretty cool!

    The image is pretty small tho.
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  • novicesnappernovicesnapper Registered Users Posts: 445 Major grins
    edited December 16, 2011
    Thanks Ian, here's the big big one lol, way to big to post http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/9122/test2gk.jpg
    I had it on live view and with that you can zoom alot digitally, So pretty much I was chasing it, as it progressed through the view finder lol. I really like the last frame, but need to take out the high lines (power lines).
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  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited December 16, 2011
    My favorite shot of the lunar eclipse was on APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day):

    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111215.html

    It shows the Umbra of the Earth, which I had never seen photographed in this way before. Really cool if you like Astronomy.
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited December 16, 2011
    That was pretty cool Chris! I figured you'd find a way to Hawaii for the event :D
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  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited December 23, 2011
    No Hawaii for me lately. :cry But I was up in Santa Cruz for a couple of days this week. GPI is being integrated up there. I felt a twinge of remorse driving through Campbell, but not much! mwink.gif
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  • ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,938 moderator
    edited December 23, 2011
    ChrisJ wrote: »
    No Hawaii for me lately. :cry But I was up in Santa Cruz for a couple of days this week. GPI is being integrated up there. I felt a twinge of remorse driving through Campbell, but not much! mwink.gif
    And you didn't phone :cry

    I bet that was cool though.

    I pass by the old place fairly often. I don't give it a second thought lol3.gif
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  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited December 24, 2011
    ian408 wrote: »
    And you didn't phone :cry
    It was all work and no play... I will be back up North in May for a concert, though!
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