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| Full Eclipse 05:12 GMT 21 Jan 2019 in UK | Rate Topic |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2019 02:24 |
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Robert
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Weather permitting the event should be visible in be visible in NW France, NW Spain, Portugal, almost the whole of North and South America and the Eastern Pacific. The super part of the description comes from the moon being relatively close to Earth, 7% larger and 15% brighter. The Wolf bit comes from it being a January full moon. It is a total eclipse, in the UK the moon will be visible throughout the eclipse, weather permitting. The forecast is for thin layers of high partial cloud, so it's a maybe... Patience required, together with large flask of coffee. The last such full event until 2029. D800, the Nikkor 300mm f/2.8 and my heaviest tripod.  A big heavy polar mount would be good, if I can get my head around stepper motors and their controllers, that could be possible in the future. https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/explore/lunar-eclipse Update: The weather seems best in Cornwall and the North, Wales and the Eastern parts of England less good. Scotland West poor, Eastern side better.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2019 05:35 |
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Eric
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Robert wrote:Weather permitting the event should be visible in be visible in NW France, NW Spain, Portugal, almost the whole of North and South America and the Eastern Pacific. Presumably this was a lesser version that I photographed back in 2015? I wish you luck ...it will be cold on Monday so won't be repeating it. Attachment: 6300AAB5-A0AF-4144-87FF-DF08D7A882DE.jpeg (Downloaded 25 times)
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2019 07:08 |
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jk
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Robert wrote:Weather permitting the event should be visible in be visible in NW France, NW Spain, Portugal, almost the whole of North and South America and the Eastern Pacific. I have it all planned. Got to be in place at 4:30am for a full set of images around 5:12am. Just hoping that the weather is clear.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2019 15:49 |
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jk
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Hopefully I will get super blood wolf moon over Headland Point at 5:12am. Attachment: 0E0BB134-3344-472B-87CA-AD6FE57E4D19.jpeg (Downloaded 21 times)
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| Posted: Sun Jan 20th, 2019 16:49 |
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Robert
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Good luck JK, I am about to grab a bit of shuteye, plan to leave here about 3am, 30 minutes drive to Stickle Pike, set up and see what I get. Thinking of doing time lapse with the D3 with the Nikkor 105 f/2.5 and specific shots with the D800 with the Nikkor 300 f/2.8. I haven't used the 300 on the D800 before, will be interesting. Mind you I am very tired right now so I may not even wake up! Right now we have clear skies with a little cloud near the horizon, hardly any wind, reasonably mild (for January very mild).
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21st, 2019 05:22 |
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jk
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Weather was fine, a little cold. Just got to process the images. For some reason the planned place the moon was higher in the sky than I wanted but still got theshots. Mirrorless is not as good as traditional DSLR for these type of shoots as the EVF gets noisy.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21st, 2019 05:48 |
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Robert
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jk wrote:Mirrorless is not as good as traditional DSLR for these type of shoots as the EVF gets noisy. !!! LOL, I had the exact same issue with the D800! I was struggling to get sharp focus on the moon with the 300 f/2.8 (Ai) on the D800, so I resorted to live view at 100% zoom, the red dots of the blood moon were dancing all over the screen. I had to zoom out a bit to get a firmer image, I think I nailed it eventually. I took about 450 exposures with the D800 and the 300mm lens, used about 70% of the battery. The D3 took 270 exposures and completely flattened my TWO best, freshly charged batteries. :-( It was very cold but almost no wind. Probably minus 5ºC? All the images are now loaded into Lr, let the fun begin.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21st, 2019 06:30 |
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jk
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All done. First of a set. Attachment: XT3-1-0114-2.jpg (Downloaded 19 times)
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21st, 2019 06:30 |
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jk
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Another one. A wider vista towards Newquay from my location. Attachment: XT3-1-0072-6.jpg (Downloaded 18 times)
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21st, 2019 06:32 |
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jk
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Another one. The lunar rise before the eclipse. Attachment: XT3-1-0060-1.jpg (Downloaded 18 times)
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