Lunar Eclipse

This was taken as the eclipse passed it's peak. Thanks for commenting. Regards

Mark

Mark,

Having imaged many total lunar eclipse that are relatively faint, I would expect that you used a time exposure long enough to capture the fainter stars in the background, along with the deeper red tones on the moon.

I have found that with my 500mm F/4 lens , I require an astronomical tracking mount to keep both the moon and stars very sharp during any exposure over 0.5 seconds.

While I could set the ISO extremely high to make some record, the image quality would suffer from noise introduced to the background (where the stars are found)

I would have liked to see the details of what you did use to capture this image.

By the way, I do have many images shot without any tracking, that develop the stars extremely well. These are taken with my Nikkor 300mm F/2.0 lens (pictured in my PN Bio). In 0.5 seconds , the results are amazing. Of coarse, so is the lens.

Great image. Highly rated !

Best Regards,  Mike

Hi Mike, Thanks for the comments. The image was exposed at 0.6secs, f4.0 iso 3200 on a 7D. If you zoom to 100 percent the stars are just beginning to trail. I guess this is very close to the untracked limit - the hi res moon still held integrity. Hope the info is useful,

Regards Mark

Beautiful Shot! I have photographed the moon and it really is a fun challenge to get it just right. You obviously did well! Love the color and I would be interested to know the settings that you used to accomplish this.

Regards,

 

David Israel

Just saw the previous post with settings. Thanks again

Hi David, thanks for commenting. Looking at the sequence one of the success factors was that the eclipse was just beginning to recede and a small amount of light was beginning to illuminate the bottom edge, assisting with the exposure. Regards Mark