Saturday, June 26, 2010

Full Moon & Partial Lunar Eclipse - 6/26/2010

I decided to try using the zoom lens to take photo of the full moon and partial eclipse. I used ISO 200 manual settings at 1/200 and started around F8 opened up to F5 as the moon was being covered. Even w/ max zoom at 200mm, I had to crop the shot so the moon doesn't look like a spec of white dot. I took the first shot of the full moon at 9:30pm.
The eclipse started at 12:15am and I waited until 12:28am to take this start of the moon falling into the earth's shadow.
The maximum of the eclipse was to happen around 1:45am. There was a thin layer cloud passing in front the moon so I waited until 1:49am to take this last shot of the moon.

3 comments:

celia said...

Good thing you are a night to the next morning person. Very cool. Glad you got these shots. Thank you.

jalna said...

Good job Shun Wah!

Erick said...

Great eclipse coverage! Good detail in the moon.