I’m sure many people out there got much better photographs of the eclipse than I did. There are several reasons for this:
- I don’t know what I’m doing (maybe it’s time to do more than experiment with the camera and, oh I don’t know, read a book or something on how to take shots of the moon).
- I might need a better camera for this sort of thing.
- A telephoto lens would help.
- It was foggy and there was a halo around the moon. The fog kept wetting down the camera lens.
- I’m an amateur.
All that said, here are the best of an okay lot:
(The moon with a halo around it, peering through the trees.)
(The beginning of the eclipse, around 5:00am.)
(About half-way through the first part of the eclipse, taken on a digital setting — and it shows.)
(Almost.)
(Fully eclipsed.)
The moon set shortly after this last photo so I wasn’t able to get the second half. I’m not sure if you can see anything in the last picture. I can, but I know what I’m looking for and my monitor is half-way decent.
The most rewarding part of this whole business was being outside at 4:30am. Ground fog was covering the area, and there was a colorful halo around the moon when I first went out. I could hear a great horned owl hooting in the woods.
I also enjoyed the brightness of the full moon followed by the gradual darkness of the eclipse. The stars, once it was totally dark, were incredible.
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