This year's other lunar eclipse...

[Rick]

This time it was their turn to see a lunar eclipse...

See http://dmmaus.livejournal.com/332035.html

After 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.

(Moved to Astrophotography, as it's not really a News story...)

[Rick]

...and now he's added the obligatory eclipse montage:



It's interesting that this eclipse seems to have been a pretty good colour-match for the one we saw earlier in the year...

[Tony G]

WOW!

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

Can you imagine the images if they had a £6000 lens laying around.

Tony G

[Rick]

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.