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Old 07-31-2018, 01:09 AM
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D West and Revell - great pics.

Unless you have specialsed kit it is difficult to get great photos of the moon etc. As you probably noticed, focusing, light contrasts, and atmosphere all become an issue!

Everything fully manual sometimes seems to work best for me. I use manual focus first, then set bracketing on, and then run through shutter speeds.

Sometimes (which I did not do in this case) it pays to use a lower zoom lens and then blow up.

Sometimes it's just luck in my case as well!!!
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Old 07-31-2018, 05:07 AM
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Ha Ha
Looks like a normal moon when my printer has run out of ink.
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Hardly saw anything of it here in Germany, due to the southern horizont being all cloudy. But I found an extremely cool NASA video how an eclipse of the moon looks when seen from the moon: https://www.der-mond.org/mondfinster...gesehen-video/
There, it actually is an eclipse of the sun!
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Thanks Kevin, great pics, we could not see it here in West Cape, it was cloudy.
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We had a perfect view from here. Mars was only a few moon diameters on the right hand side. The moon was a deep orange and Mars was also bright and orange. A rare cosmic spectacle indeed. The white moon was white and flat, but the blood moon was all fluffy, a bit like the man in the moon was actually a muppet.
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Kevin, here is a shot I took last night, still a long way from good but better than what I was getting. I use a Canon Rebel XSI with a 250mm lens, I use autofocus with spot metering, aperture at f-11, ISO at 100, and a shutter speed of 1/40. I also start with 1 1/3 stops under exposure and go at 1/3 stop increments up to two stops under exposure. 1 1/3 stops under seems to work best for me. Camera is mounted on a fairly heavy tripod and I use the time delay so I am clear of the camera when the picture is taken. I crop the photos and usually mess with the contrast to get what I want. I would love to have a 500mm lens but the wife won't let me mortgage the farm to buy one.
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Old 08-02-2018, 01:54 AM
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DWest - that's good. Great shot - not grainy and very clear detail.

Did you try manual focus?
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