I went to bed at my usual 8:00 PM and left the shooting up to you young folks. I may try it in 2033. ;o)
J ----- Original Message ----- From: "ann sanfedele" <ann...@nyc.rr.com> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 6:37:56 AM Subject: Re: PESO -- Cloudy Moon (was) Re: Total Lunar Eclipse ActuallY I saw it for about 45 minutes ... but no colors.. up to where it became a very thin ")" - I did make anattempt with the 55-300 but using my dressmaker dummy as a tripod and I'msure all I got ws a fuzzy cresent .. then the clouds rolled in.. saw a faint glimmer of reddish color around 11 but no shape.. but on the local news this morning I saw some neat shots locals got from different vantage points than mine... although not far - I probably should have stayed by the bedroomwindow - wasn't up to going to the roof it gets a little difficult to navigate for me these days. Bummer... I saw the last oneat least. 18 years... to the next one.. if I get to 96 I'll probably need someone to hold my head up ann On 9/28/2015 1:02 AM, Knarf wrote: > I walked along the lake for about a 1/2 hour, hoping the light clouds would > lift, but they didn't. Gave up, went home. About midnight I brought the > garbage out and there it was: about 1/4 obscured by the earth's shadow. > > Quite spectacular! > > Like Ann, I don't have the equipment to do anything about it, but at least I > saw it. 'T'was pretty cool. > > And earlier, after a significant dry spell, I got a few okay street shots > today. Can't wait to look at them on a big monitor and process a few... > > Cheers, > > frank > > On 27 September, 2015 11:59:12 PM EDT, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> > wrote: >> LOvely to get to see the colors - glad you and Paul got us something >> anyway... >> >> ann >> >> On 9/27/2015 11:44 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: >>> I went out to try to shoot the Super Moon/Eclipse and I've given up >> on >>> the photography at least. Not a total bust, but there seem to be >> high >>> clouds obscuring any detail. I tried to use the SMC Pentax M*300mm >>> f4.0, my copy of which is a bit sharper than the A*300 I also have >> was >>> also a bust. coupled with the 1.7x AF adapter the camera thought the >>> moon should be in focus but they all looked like the image I'm going >>> to post just because I tried. It's not good, but I did make the >> attempt. >>> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20superbloodmoon.html >> >>> >>> Equipment: Pentax K-5II w/vmc Vivitar Series 1 600mm Solid >>> Catadioptric f8.0 and smc Pentax F 1.7x AF Adapter. >>> >>> Note: There was so little light the K-5II just simply refused to try >>> to focus with the AF adapter and the Solid Cat lens mounted, I had to >>> force it to focus to infinity with a different lens then mount the >>> camera onto the Solid cat which was mounted on the tripod. Lest >>> anyone thing this might be the reason for the bad focus, every shot >>> with every lens combination whether manual or auto focused looked >>> pretty much like the one posted, just smaller on the frame. I do >> kind >>> of like it as an abstract, but I really wish that I had captured more >>> detail. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 9/22/2015 3:18 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: >>>> From an email I received this afternoon: >>>> >>>> >>>> Total Lunar Eclipse! >>>> >>>> On the evening of September 27th, skywatchers throughout North >> America >>>> will be treated to one of nature’s grandest celestial sky shows – a >>>> total eclipse of the Moon. And unlike the one in April which >> occurred >>>> in the early predawn hours, this one will happen during convenient >>>> evening ones. >>>> >>>> This cosmic spectacular begins with the full Moon entering the >> Earth’s >>>> dark inner shadow (the “umbra”) at 9:06 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time >> and >>>> continuing to become ever-more fully immersed in it for the next >> hour. >>>> Totality itself will start at 10:11 p.m. EDT and last more than an >>>> hour until 11:23 EDT, after which the Moon begins to slowly emerge >>>> from the cone of darkness in reverse order. Adding to the beauty of >>>> the overall scene at this eclipse (especially during totality >> itself, >>>> while the sky is dark), the Moon will be accompanied by some of the >>>> early rising bright winter stars. (Use your Scientifics’ Star and >>>> Planet Locator to identify them) >>>> >>>> There are several interesting things to notice as you watch this >> event >>>> unfold. Most obvious are the darkness of the eclipsed Moon and the >>>> range of colors displayed, both of which vary from one eclipse to >>>> another. These depend on the clarity of the Earth’s atmosphere at >> the >>>> time, which refracts or bends sunlight around into the umbral >> shadow. >>>> There have actually been eclipses so dark that the Moon remained >>>> all-but invisible during totality — and ones so pale that you had to >>>> look carefully to see that there was even an eclipse in progress! >>>> Among the colors that have been seen are shades of reddish-orange, >>>> brown, copper, rose, and even blood-red. Notice, too, that the >> Earth’s >>>> shadow is curved at all phases of the eclipse, as the Moon passes >>>> through it. This is direct proof that the Earth itself is round — >>>> something recognized by many early skywatchers. And finally, realize >>>> that you’re actually seeing our lovely satellite move eastward in >> its >>>> orbit — as it first passes into, through, and then out of the shadow >>>> at roughly its own diameter each hour. >>>> >>>> While lunar eclipses can certainly be enjoyed with the unaided eye >>>> alone (as they have been throughout most of history!), they are >>>> best-seen in binoculars. An ideal pair for this would be a 7×50 or >>>> 10×50 glass, the first number indicating its magnification and the >>>> second the aperture in millimeters. Telescopes themselves, with >> their >>>> relatively narrow fields of view, typically don’t provide enough sky >>>> coverage around the Moon to get the full effect of its globe being >>>> suspended in space. An exception here, however, is Scientifics’ >>>> amazing Astroscan wide-field reflecting telescope. Providing a >>>> 3-degree actual field of view at it low magnification of 16x, it >> takes >>>> in an astounding six full-Moon-diameters of sky — something many >> have >>>> described as looking through the porthole of a spaceship! >>>> >>>> —James Mullaney >>>> Former assistant editor at Sky & Telescope magazine and author of 10 >>>> books on stargazing. >>>> >>>> Dan Matyola >>>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>>> >>> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
