A Red Dragon is Eating the Moon
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common_natureLiveblogging the 2010 North American Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse. :D Lat 39 N, Long 76 W
Some notes of art: to follow the everybody-can-to-it theme of this community, these pictures were all taken in a suburban yard with a cheap EasyShare digital camera and no extra equipment. ...as a result, though, these images are really not a very good equivalent of what was visible through the naked eye - I had very limited ability to adjust exposure times and focal depth, so the short-exposure shots are far too dimmed out ( you could see a disc for almost the whole course of the eclipse) and the long-exposure shots are far too bright ( the slivers, especially, look much bigger in the photos than they did through eyes.) And, of course, in general it's much less sharp and I lost detail. But I am not going to say they aren't accurate, because a creature with eyes like an EasyShare camera would have seen pretty much this. :P
1:45 AM
2:00 AM
2:15 AM
2:23 AM
2:30 AM
2:35 AM
2:35 AM long-exposure
At this point I had to switch to longer exposure, nothing showed with short exposure. (Hence the sudden blurriness.)
2:40 AM
2:45 AM
(2:45 -> near-totality, break to thaw and post pictures.)
3:15 AM
(3:15 -> totality, break for fresh pomegranate and old brandy)
3:45 AM
4:00 AM
4:15 AM
-->4:30 AM Bed.
Some notes of art: to follow the everybody-can-to-it theme of this community, these pictures were all taken in a suburban yard with a cheap EasyShare digital camera and no extra equipment. ...as a result, though, these images are really not a very good equivalent of what was visible through the naked eye - I had very limited ability to adjust exposure times and focal depth, so the short-exposure shots are far too dimmed out ( you could see a disc for almost the whole course of the eclipse) and the long-exposure shots are far too bright ( the slivers, especially, look much bigger in the photos than they did through eyes.) And, of course, in general it's much less sharp and I lost detail. But I am not going to say they aren't accurate, because a creature with eyes like an EasyShare camera would have seen pretty much this. :P
1:45 AM
2:00 AM
2:15 AM
2:23 AM
2:30 AM
2:35 AM
2:35 AM long-exposure
At this point I had to switch to longer exposure, nothing showed with short exposure. (Hence the sudden blurriness.)
2:40 AM
2:45 AM
(2:45 -> near-totality, break to thaw and post pictures.)
3:15 AM
(3:15 -> totality, break for fresh pomegranate and old brandy)
3:45 AM
4:00 AM
4:15 AM
-->4:30 AM Bed.
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Date: 2010-12-21 08:00 am (UTC)Thank you for sharing these. I might see whether I can get some energy up later to try to take a photo when the partially eclipsed moon rises here in Sydney.
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Date: 2010-12-21 06:04 pm (UTC)that was great, thanks so much for freezing on our behalf!