Lunar Eclipse Totality 28 September 2012 04:57 Manche, France

[The Thing]

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)/)

[Fay]

Great Duncan!!!

[MarkS]

Excellent totality image Duncan!  Good luck processing the rest of your data.

And I like the star trail!

Mark

[The Thing]

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.

[Carole]

Good work Duncan, I know what you mean about the hundred of subs and the time it takes processing them all.  ditto

Carole

[Fay]

what star trail, Mark?

[JohnP]

2 oclock position just off edge of moon..

Excellent image btw Dunc. Really like this & nice size - John

[The Thing]

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.

[Kenny]

Fantastic Duncan!