Total Moon Eclipse Feb 20/21

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited February 22, 2008 in The Big Picture
Read about this on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=19232260290
but I'm sure there are plenty other places:-)
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Time and Place


</CAPTION><TBODY><TR><TD class=label>Date:</TD><TD>Wednesday, February 20, 2008

</TD></TR><TR><TD class=label>Time:</TD><TD>7:00pm - 11:50pm

</TD></TR><TR><TD class=label>Location:</TD><TD>All across North America, South America, Europe (late), and Africa (late - after midnight)

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"May the f/stop be with you!"

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  • tsk1979tsk1979 Registered Users Posts: 937 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2008
    Take some pics for us south Asians. No eclipse here :cry
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  • eoren1eoren1 Registered Users Posts: 2,391 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2008
    Thanks Nikolai. Looks like this one happens at a more reasonable time than that last one did. Mind lending me your expertise on how to predict where the moon will be on that date/time? I'm trying to figure out which DC landmark/monument to try to include with it.
    Thanks,
    E
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2008
    eoren1 wrote:
    Thanks Nikolai. Looks like this one happens at a more reasonable time than that last one did. Mind lending me your expertise on how to predict where the moon will be on that date/time? I'm trying to figure out which DC landmark/monument to try to include with it.
    Thanks,
    E
    If you visit that link, you'll see the link to the map, too. DC is in a very good position, full umbra methinks... On a West Coast we'll only get half...ne_nau.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2008
    eoren1 wrote:
    Thanks Nikolai. Looks like this one happens at a more reasonable time than that last one did. Mind lending me your expertise on how to predict where the moon will be on that date/time? I'm trying to figure out which DC landmark/monument to try to include with it.
    Thanks,
    E

    you seriously have done some amazing shots...DC is on my wish list to visit....anyway i cant wait to see what you come up with!
    Aaron Nelson
  • eoren1eoren1 Registered Users Posts: 2,391 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2008
    Thanks Nikolai but that link requires a facebook login which I don't have.

    Thanks Aaron for the kind words...I'll do my best to live up to the expectations.

    E
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited February 18, 2008
    eoren1 wrote:
    Thanks Nikolai but that link requires a facebook login which I don't have.
    Sorry about that!
    In any case "google and thou shalt find" something like this:
    http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2008Feb21/TLE2008Feb21.html
    Click the timezone links below to see it in your own time.
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • sohotrightnowsohotrightnow Registered Users Posts: 50 Big grins
    edited February 20, 2008
    Lunar Eclipse Tonight (Last one until 2010)
    If you guys wanna go for it, here is your chance:

    http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/02/tonights-lunar.html


    Also make sure you share your pics since I'm sure everyone would love to see them!
  • Ann McRaeAnn McRae Registered Users Posts: 4,584 Major grins
    edited February 20, 2008
    Settings and gear selection?

    Last eclipse I shot with my 828. Now that I have such a selection of gear, I am wondering what to take out?

    It is 0C here tonight, and I do not have any driving commitments...makes me think of picking a shoot location with a great backdrop too!!!

    ANSWER:
    info here

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited February 20, 2008
    Ann McRae wrote:
    Settings and gear selection?

    Last eclipse I shot with my 828. Now that I have such a selection of gear, I am wondering what to take out?

    It is 0C here tonight, and I do not have any driving commitments...makes me think of picking a shoot location with a great backdrop too!!!
    Ann, gobs of info here: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=64538
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • dmmattixdmmattix Registered Users Posts: 341 Major grins
    edited February 20, 2008
    Totally overcast with threat of freezing rain here....
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  • blalorblalor Registered Users Posts: 94 Big grins
    edited February 21, 2008
    The View from New England
    Clear and cold last night here in Nashua, NH. I took these with a Canon 40D and Sigma 70-300mm.

    10:35pm:
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    0.8s @ ƒ/11, ISO3200, 300mm

    11:30pm:
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    1/200 @ ƒ/8, ISO100, 300mm

    I was surprised to learn that even at 2 seconds there is visible movement of the stars and moon. ne_nau.gif
  • claudermilkclaudermilk Registered Users Posts: 2,756 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2008
    :cry Couldn't shoot it, I had heavy cloud cover. Now gotta wait a couple of years for the next one.
    Chris
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  • claudermilkclaudermilk Registered Users Posts: 2,756 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2008
    :cry Overcast here, too. I couldn't even see a hint of the moon at the designated time. Gotta wait for the next one now. Sigh.

    It is amazing how fast that sucker moves, isn't it? I was hoping to use what I learned from the last eclipse on this one. Sigh again. :cry
    Chris
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2008
    claudermilk wrote:
    :cry Couldn't shoot it, I had heavy cloud cover. Now gotta wait a couple of years for the next one.
    +1 :cry
    Of course, last night was an overcast - in our place at least. I heard some people managed to see it, but it was spotty at best...
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • CuongCuong Registered Users Posts: 1,508 Major grins
    edited February 21, 2008
    I think people closer to the coast was out of luck with the cloud cover. I lived farther inland, about 20 miles from the south coast, so there was a break in the clouds for about 90 minutes, just enough to see the beginning to the total eclipse. After that the show was over with light cloud cover returning, so no pics of moon emerging from the eclipse.

    Cuong
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  • evorywareevoryware Registered Users Posts: 1,330 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2008
    It was a beautiful last night. Wish I had known before, I would have bought my tripod out with me. Needless to say, I saw it but got no useable pics.
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