Image date, time and location: 20150929 04:46 CEST Manche France
Telescope aperture and focal ratio: Meade LX90 8", Baader Alan Gee II Telecompressor
Camera and filters used: Canon 1000d Modded, no filters
Processing applied: PIPP (centring, cropping and rotating), Registax (alignment, stacking, sharpening)
Using an AstroPhotographyTool plan I took sets of ten with a short exposure between each as a place holder in the capture folder. Initially they were every ten minutes and I had to keep editing the plan to lengthen the exposures but at the end they were continuous so I am tempted to do an animation showing stars being occulted behind the red Moon. But I have 1500 files to process!
This is the last ten images of 1s at ISO800 with no filters. I haven't altered the colour, just sharpened (a bit too much)/)
(http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10050/normal_MoonEclipse0441_web.png) (http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10050/MoonEclipse0441_web.png)
Great Duncan!!!
Excellent totality image Duncan! Good luck processing the rest of your data.
And I like the star trail!
Mark
Thanks guys and gals. I'll keep plodding on with the processing and see if I can make an animation showing the stars being eaten by the Red Moon of Doom. Must be a 'B' movie in there somewhere.
Good work Duncan, I know what you mean about the hundred of subs and the time it takes processing them all. ditto
Carole
what star trail, Mark?
2 oclock position just off edge of moon..
Excellent image btw Dunc. Really like this & nice size - John
If you look at the full size you will see (apart form sharpening artefacts!) several more stars. This is a crop 2600x2600 pixels from 3888xwhatever and I suspect there are many more stars lurking.
Fantastic Duncan!