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Coffee House => Coffee House Boards => CH / Science and Technology => Topic started by: blobrana on March 03, 2007, 10:58:09 PM
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Anyone watching it now?
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Yep! It looks red like the planet Mars has come for a visit :-)
Where's a Slim Whitman record when you need one :lol:
(Mars Attack film)
A4000 Mad
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Ta, Blobzie, I would have missed it if you didn't say!
(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g154/Odd_Job/IMG_1180.jpg)
Okay, maybe a digital is not the best to try to photograph it :oops:
See that smiley? It matches the moon, it does.
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blobrana wrote:
Anyone watching it now?
:idea: Lets stand out side in the cold and take pictures, Oh wait have just been doing that for the last 45 minutes
just hope they come out :-o
Nice clear night for it Blobrana,I must admit I only found out about it on IRC tonight at about 22.30 :roll:
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X-ray wrote:
Ta, Blobzie, I would have missed it if you didn't say!
Snip image
Okay, maybe a digital is not the best to try to photograph it :oops:
Well I've taken all mine with Digital as well so hopefully they will come out all right!! will find out tomorrow
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@ X-ray
That's much better than I've managed to get with my Sony digital camcorder :headwall:
@ AJS
Can you post a nice one here tomorrow if they come out ok?
A4000 Mad
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I {bleep}ing hate clouds :-x.
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(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/MoonBig.jpg)
Playback of the recorded footage looks great. Unfortunately taking a photo to memory stick is not the best feature of my Sony camcorder :boohoo:
A4000 Mad
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It's a tough one to photograph.
I wonder if Blobzie got any pics....
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It wasnt visible from here at all. Its still grey cloudy and miserable now :-(
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@ Mel
Sorry you missed it. To begin with it was like watching a solar eclipse in the way that the moon goes across the sun. I thought the moon would just briefly go yellow and not go red for a couple of hours or so. My poor quality photo above was taken at about 1:30AM as the moon was about to go white again.
@ X-ray
I'm sure a nice photo will appear here before too long :-)
@ all
Anyone know when the next big solar or lunar event is?
A4000 Mad
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A4000_Mad wrote:
@ X-ray
That's much better than I've managed to get with my Sony digital camcorder :headwall:
@ AJS
Can you post a nice one here tomorrow if they come out ok?
A4000 Mad
well slightly out of focus but here's one I hope
just 3 at the moment
Edit Have removed link as you had to log in :-o see pictures below :-)
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>>I wonder if Blobzie got any pics....
Hum,
i managed to get a few fuzzy images
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/158/409627811_32f77de43e_m.jpg)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/150/409192035_34acd71868_m.jpg)
My fuzzy Eclipse image (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/155/409291936_e199d08a27_o.jpg)
Compare these with this image taken by someone else
Eclipse image (http://www.sternhimmel-ueber-ulm.de/scratch/MoFi2007.jpg)
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@ AJS
Link is not working
@ La Blob
Looks like we all got the same sort of deal. That big one underneath sure is nice though, I like that a lot.
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X-ray wrote:
@ AJS
Link is not working
@ La Blob
Looks like we all got the same sort of deal. That big one underneath sure is nice though, I like that a lot.
X-ray Yeah my Bad you have too be logged into Yahoo groups :-( to view
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Right here we go I hope fingers crossed
(http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s291/ajs1959/lunar2.jpg)
(http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s291/ajs1959/Lunar1.jpg)
(http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s291/ajs1959/lunar3.jpg)
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odin wrote:
I {bleep}ing hate clouds :-x.
Yup, same here.
Although we did get an unblocked view of a very white, bright moon at 2am :-x
Bloody weather.
@AJS
Nice pics.
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here in NY it was a very clear night and we saw a beautiful maroon moon. The white sliver of light (for us) was on the left side of the moon. well, that was when the eclipse was starting to end.
I was worried about being about to see the moon because we have had rain and cloudy days all week, so this was quite a treat!
I believe the next red moon happens around aug 28th or thereabouts!
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Hey AJS got good pics there!
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Ermmm, we saw a bit of it, between pubs. :pint:
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X-ray wrote:
Hey AJS got good pics there!
:-D Cheers X-ray
first time I have tried, have got 60+ shots just playing about with the settings whilst taking them, exposures vary from 1/250 of a second up to 30 seconds, just need a bigger lens to attach to my old Sony F717 :-D
4 seconds seemed best for the red shots
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Yes very good photos indeed thanks AJS. I also got stuck at the Yahoo groups log in page earlier. I am a member but have long forgotten both my user name and password. They will be something to do with the Amiga of course, but that doesn't really narrow it down much :lol:
A4000 Mad
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X-ray wrote:
It's a tough one to photograph.
Not if you use the right tools... Which remain, in this age of cameraphones and Handycam freeze-frames, an SLR, a tripod and a telephoto lens.
You can get yourself set up for a couple of hundred quid, but people would rather spend that on a shiny new consumer digicam, no doubt with a built-in MP3 player or other such nonesense, and ultimately get the results they deserve.
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Hey, I am not complaining. I use my camera mainly for macro work and it suits me not to have to develop that. Whether I get the moon or not is no biggie.
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pictures people have taken around the world (http://www.spaceweather.com/eclipses/gallery_03mar07.htm)
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Hum,
Lunar Eclipse Images - 03/03/07
See even more (http://www.flickr.com/groups/loony/pool/)
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blobrana wrote:
Anyone watching it now?
Yup, I saw it ! though I nearly missed it completely - only noticed cos it was mentioned in the 6 o'clock news...
I did take some experimental pictures with my DC3400 (nearly forgot to use the tripod ;-)) but the zoom feature isnt good enough.
I did also take the opportunity to observe totality in my telescope* - very nice at 30x ! no piccies though - my afocal techique isnt sorted yet, though I'm plotting a neat little 'hack' involving a webcam...
*76mm F7.9 Schmidt-Newtonian catadioptric mounted on a reasonably sturdy camera tripod, 20mm Huygens eyepiece
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AJS wrote:
:-D Cheers X-ray
first time I have tried, have got 60+ shots just playing about with the settings whilst taking them, exposures vary from 1/250 of a second up to 30 seconds, just need a bigger lens to attach to my old Sony F717 :-D
4 seconds seemed best for the red shots
1/250th of a second is just about perfect for moon shots, also helps if you underexpose by a stop or so, gives you more to work with later, nice effort all the same :-)
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@Thread
We didn't get to see it on the East coast of Australia, shame really as I would have got some really nice pics.
Edit...Here's one I prepared earlier ;-)
(http://i5.pbase.com/g6/57/719657/3/73858981.VbsFpVSv.jpg)
Link to original... (http://www.pbase.com/adz929/image/73858981/original)
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adz wrote:
Link to original... (http://www.pbase.com/adz929/image/73858981/original)
Ah yes, the macro gone wrong (http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1874) ;-)
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Vincent wrote:
Ah yes, the macro gone wrong (http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1874) ;-)
Still waiting on Blobzie to lend me a ship so I can get some real moon macro's :lol:
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in case anyone here is using the most recent Opera (9.10, I think), there's something called "Widgets" which is little programs that can be run from Opera.
one I think some here might like is PlanetWerks (http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4246)
It displays the sun and planets moving around the sun - right on your desktop! it's really cute.
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Looks kinda funny from here.
(http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/jun2006/1200pxle_voyage_dans_la_lune.jpg)
:-P
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(http://meninadoluar.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/heart-moon.jpg)