This time it was their turn to see a lunar eclipse... ;)
See http://dmmaus.livejournal.com/332035.html
QuoteAfter most people had left my work today, I grabbed the Canon EF400 f/2.8L*1 lens from our lens-testing lab, the heaviest tripod I could find, and a handy camera, and set them up on the roof of the company car-park.
*1 I think that's one of these (http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/EF_Lenses/Fixed_Focal_Length/EF_400mm_f28LIS_USM/index.asp).
(Moved to
Astrophotography, as it's not really a
News story...)
...and now he's added the obligatory eclipse montage:
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1348/1262561218_775249a60e_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmmaus/1262561218/)
It's interesting that this eclipse seems to have been a pretty good colour-match for the one we saw earlier in the year...
WOW! :surprised:
That's some montage, it's nearly as good as Chris and John'sfrom back in March,
http://forum.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/index.php?topic=2206.0 (http://forum.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/index.php?topic=2206.0)
Can you imagine the images if they had a £6000 lens laying around. :roll:
Tony G
Yeah, but I guess that's what you get for being a physicist working in one of Canon's optical labs. :)
What he didn't have was a mount capable of guiding, and his image of totality does show very slight star-trails, which hs presumably also blurred the image of the Moon.