Lunar eclipse tips?

[PinkoCommie]

As there's a lunar eclipse tomorrow (15 June) I thought it's be a good opportunity to break out my tripod and give my new 1.4x teleconvertor a shot.

Anyone tried getting shots of a lunar eclipse before? I'm especially interested in getting it in its transition from full eclipse to none (as the transition in occurs below the horizon I can only really take shots of it coming out of eclipse), which might be more of a challenge as it will be pretty high contrast between the areas.

 

[one in a million]

nice one, make sure you post your pics up, love anything thing to do with space and aliens

 

[Just Bob]

Hadn't realised this was going to happen tomorrow night. Thanks for the heads up on that!
Just looked at the weather for the south east tomorrow evening and it's going to be cloudy. Bloody great!

Looks like it starts around 10 pm until midnight.

As I am obviously going to miss it, i look forward to others pictures.

 

[TOGUSA]

a good solid tripod and a 300mm lens and if you can do it, a laptop and shoot remotly.. you want to manualy focus and minimise vibrations.
fingers crossed its a clear night.

 

[PinkoCommie]

Hadn't realised this was going to happen tomorrow night. Thanks for the heads up on that!
Just looked at the weather for the south east tomorrow evening and it's going to be cloudy. Bloody great!

Looks like it starts around 10 pm until midnight.

As I am obviously going to miss it, i look forward to others pictures.

It starts earlier than that, It'll be in totality from when it rises at about 9:15 until about just after 10pm, but doesn't fully exit eclipse until about midnight.

If you're not able to see it directly, but are at a computer, Slooh are doing a free live feed from around the world. They've also done a free android app so you can watch it on the go.

There's some more info on it here (shameless plug, my blog )

 

[Nickson]

Did anyone manage to get any good pictures of it?

Far too cloudy down here. Could just see a blur through thick cloud

Would be good to see some!

 

[PinkoCommie]

What an absolute bust :-(

Didn't even see the sky, let alone the moon.

 

[Derelict-UK]

too cloudy & too light = fail.

 

[welshname]

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/pictures/photos-11035/pictures-lunar-eclipse-june-2011/1

i wondered why the moon was orange the night before it.

looked so wierd.

 

[Kane.]

I saw this :approve: pretty epic tbh.