I used my Sony A7rIII and the Sigma 105mm f/1.4 Art last night for the eclipse. I shoes to go wide so I could get a star field behind it and the moon is to the right of the beehive open cluster (M44). The camera/lens setup was guided on my AstroTrac. I like the way it turned out.... Questions?
I appreciate that! Was definitely a shot in the dark for me. Would love to do it again.
kimknapp wrote:
I am jealous. I had planned to do it, but had the wrong day (was the 19th here in Central Florida)!!! Real bummer, although I would not have been able to do it the day before, anyway. You did a great job!
Continuing the moon theme, moon rise tonight, Over the Atlantic Ocean off of New Smyrna Beach, Florida. This was two shots, stacked.
There was some smoke in the air, which increased the normal color.
I shot something a little different last night...4 hours before the eclipse started, I headed 30 minutes out of town and found a quiet dirt road to set up on. With the wife literally counting the seconds for me, I managed to capture a center-line transit of the International Space Station across the face of the soon-to-eclipse full moon. The ISS appeared in 19 of the 90 odd frames I took
We watched it approach with the naked eye, which was amazing. Took 2.5 seconds to fully cross over the face of the moon.
Taken with A7R3, Canon 100-400 II @ 400mm, ISO 400, F8, 1/1600
Might try this again with a 2X TC some day, was an incredible rush to develop the pictures back home and see those little solar panels so far away.
That is really cool! It seems everybody and their dog took pictures of the lunar eclipse. The moon was so high I could not put the camera/lens in a near vertical position on my Wimberley gimball. I forgot I could adjust the hight of the holding arm! In the midst of confusion, I switched to the RRS BH40, which was OK but not the most steady setup in the world when using a long lens in the 90 degree notch.
Few weeks ago I posted another picture of this peninsula on the eastern end of Madeira taken with Zeiss Loxia 21mm 2.8 (pano).
This is the more dramatic version where I was using the Laowa 10-18mm 4.5-5.6 @ 10mm and the Smooth Reflections app.
