Lunar Eclipse 28 September 2015

[Jonathan]

Hey everyone. Hope you all enjoyed a fantastic eclipse last night. I went to Epsom Downs to take these. I Managed to gather an unusual mix of strange and interesting people. Many of whom thought the "dark bit" of the moon is water. One person even ask me where the sun was, they thought it was behind the moon.... Bless 'em

Sadly I was beaten by the dew as I don't have a heat shield at the moment

I took these using my Nikon D5100 attached to my Celestron 6" Schmidt-Cassegrain XLT with a F6 focal Reducer. I tracked the moon using a Celestron Advanced VX mount. I used ISO 400 on all my images. I started with a shutter speed of 1/1600sec then used 15sec when the moon was eclipsed.

[MarkS]

That is an excellent set of images and nicely presented.  You should be really proud of those!

As noted by others, that is a very large range of exposures required.

Mark

[Carole]

Excellent work

Carole

[Fay]

Great display!

[JohnP]

nice - like the presentation

[Jonathan]

Thank you so much, this has been a massive confidence boost. The physics teacher at work said he wants to stick up a massive poster of it in his classroom.

[Mac]

Nice capture

Mac.

[The Thing]

That's really excellent Jonathan.

[Kenny]

Excellent images Jonathan.