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Re: [OM] IMGs: Blood Moon

Subject: Re: [OM] IMGs: Blood Moon
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:46:19 -0400
Nice pictures, but I’ve seen so many of these in my lifetime I didn’t bother 
even to think about getting up to catch this one. True, it turned out to be 
cloudy at the event, but when I was up about 1:30 a.m. for a nature call, the 
sky was clear, the moon bright. I toyed with the idea of staying up, but 
decided to put my toys away. Total lunar eclipse. Yawn. Sleep is better.

--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal

On Apr 15, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>     Late last night we were treated to a total lunar eclipse, one where the 
> moon does not enter into Earth's umbra but instead the penumbra, leaving the 
> moon a reddish colour during totality, hence the name "Blood Moon".  Here's a 
> series of photos taken over a period of almost an hour:
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13872873395/
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13872874325/
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13872875525/
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13872875945/
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13872876905/
> 
> and a token photograph of Mars, which was nearby:
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/64004640@N03/13872877365/
> 
>     All taken with the E-510 with the Samyang 100-500/5.6 lens.  Exposure 
> time was 1 second, which was a bit slow but a little post processing gamma 
> adjustment returned the colour to a more natural hue.  Longer exposure time 
> made the photos appear to be even more OOF.
> 
>     I'm surprised that the lens did this well, and I had hoped that the 
> Quantaray 500mm bazooka lens I bought late last week would have arrived so 
> that I could try it out during this event.  It has less glass and is almost a 
> refractor telescope with a camera mount.

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