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[Roberto Lequeux]

As I was looking at the eclipse a few moments ago, I thought "Gee I wonder if HDRx™ would be able to capture everything I'm seeing; the remaining bright area of the moon, the dim orange shadowed side, the slight blue hue of the sky, the stars, and the wispy clouds lingering." I guess we'll see.

I was imagining that as rain drops pelted my eyeballs.

 

[Raphael Varandas]

???

 

[paulherrin]

I was hoping they'd shoot it! For those of you who have been at this more than I, (which is nearly all of you,) what lens is that?

looks like a canon 400mm f2.8 with a 2x tele-adapter

 

[Mark L. Pederson]

looks like a canon 400mm f2.8 with a 2x tele-adapter

good eye. still rolling. I'm tired.

 

[paulherrin]

haha, i would say sleep... but DON'T BLOW IT! hehe

btw. i like that babe in swaddling clothes.

 

[michael zaletel]

At least you have a clear view of the sky. Stayed up late and only got to see a cloud eclipse!

-michael zaletel

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Started out cloudy here, but the clouds moved out....

OMG... I can't wait to offload the RED footage for this one!

 

[Brad Crawford]

wow Jeff, great shot! I'd love to see that in motion

 

[paulherrin]

yess, let's see the 500 @ 4k!

 

[Francesco Bonomo]

That's why we call it "Luna Rossa" (red moon) in Italy. Very nice picture, Jeff, can't wait to see Mark's footage! Red Moon on Red Epic...

 

[IAN SUN]

Getting some great stuff here, but my longest lens is a 200 :/

 

[paulherrin]

my question might have got buried earlier in another thread... is the moon being lit by the earth?

my good brother studied astro-physics, but he's not here for christmas yet to ask him...

 

[Danny Lingan]

The sun is lighting the moon (and Earth) and Earth's shadow is being cast upon the moon. The rule is that the type of eclipse (lunar or solar) names the thing that is being eclipsed. Thus, tonight it's a lunar eclipse. On a solar eclipse, the moon comes between Earth and the sun, "covering" the sun.

I caught a lunar eclipse years ago on one of the original Sony mini DV cameras. It was a lot of fun trying to keep it in frame as I didn't have the mechanical device used by telescopes (I forget the name) to compensate for Earth's rotation.

With the form factor and available lens mounts, Epic and Scarlet should help facilitate some good hobbyist astro-photography.

 

[IAN SUN]

The color comes from refracted light passing through the Earth's atmosphere.

 

[J Davis]

The color probably comes from refracted light passing through the Earth's atmosphere.

That would seem right - the more atmosphere sunlight passes through the more the blue is removed/refracted away. eg sunset angle

 

[paulherrin]

yes, but what's the fill source? the same light that's bouncing around up there?

 

[IAN SUN]

The source is the Sun, directly behind us now : )

 

[paulherrin]

haha, thanks! i think it's funny how these two threads have now officially become mirrors...

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=53191

never could have guessed from how they started.

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

The only thing we can perceive being lit by the earth is the atmosphere, which gets in the way of a perfect shot.

 

[Niko Pueringer]

yes, but what's the fill source? the same light that's bouncing around up there?

The dim red color you see on the moon is the result of light refracting through the atmosphere as it passes by.