Starship Asterisk*

Eclipsed Luna
http://www.visualuniverse.org/lunar-ecl ... 2010.shtml
Copyright: Phillip Jones

Eclipsed Moon over Normandy
Copyright: Quentin Déhais

Here are a couple of mine that I felt came out the best. Equipment: my wife's Canon SX20 IS and a cheap tripod


I like the contrast between the visible detail in the shadowed portion, and the total blank of the rest. It drives home what "eclipse" means. Also in a couple there is a narrow band of detail at the edge of the shadow.


I got lots of interesting visual effects at this stage. Several of these photos came out without the yellow cast -- maybe some kind of auto-adjust by my camera?



The rest are here.

The colors are not as bright as what others have posted -- I don't know if that's an effect of my local seeing, or my camera. Any tips on adjusting the latter?

Eclipse Over Mont-Saint-Michel
http://www.astrosurf.com/legault/eclips ... 21_25B.jpg
Copyright: Thierry Legault

Six Phases of Eclipse
Copyright: Michael D. Wailes Eclipse Mosaic
Copyright: Brian Kimball Eclipsed Moon and Stars
Copyright: Richard Richins

Setting Eclipsed Moon Green Flash
http://www.sternwarte.at
Copyright: Herbert Raab
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Which of a set of twelve of these eclipse images are your favorites? Vote here!

Dec 2010 Lunar Eclipse
http://www.starscapeimaging.com
Copyright: Jon Talbot

Hi,

here is some more .

The Lunar Eclipse 2010
http://www.skytrip.de
Copyright: Mario Weigand bigger: http://www.skytrip.de/mond/mofi2010/lun ... 21-5a2.jpg
even bigger: http://www.skytrip.de/mond/mofi2010/lun ... -21-5a.jpg

bigger: http://www.skytrip.de/mond/mofi2010/lun ... 21-3a2.jpg
even bigger: http://www.skytrip.de/mond/mofi2010/lun ... -21-3a.jpg


- Los Alamos / New Mexico / USA
- EOS 5D Mk II
- Pentax 75/500 SDHF

cheers

Mario

Blue Mountain Eclipse
Copyright: Richard Steinberg

Eclipsed Moon over Curitiba, Brazil
http://www.astronomiaeatmosfera.blogspot.com/
Fabiano B. Diniz
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Florida Eclipse Sequence
http://www.launchphotography.com/Lunar_ ... _2010.html
Copyright: Ben Cooper

North is up in the image. Since the eclipse occurred very nearly at the time of the winter solstice, the ecliptic (the apparent path of the sun against the stars) was oriented nearly exactly east-west (horizontal in the image).

The 13.1° angle of the apparent motion of the stars is caused by a combination of (1) the 5.1° inclination of the moon's orbital plane with respect to the ecliptic plane and (2) the topocentric correction (8.0°) due to motion of the observatory with respect to the earth-moon barycenter.

For very distant objects (>> 1 AU), the topocentric correction is small and often neglected. For objects such as near-Earth comets and asteroids and, evidently, for the moon, there can be a substantial difference between the topocentric and geocentric systems.

Image details- telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106N four-inch refractor, focal length 528mm - mount: Paramount ME equatorial - camera: Orion StarShoot Pro V1 - image scale: 3.05 arcsec/pixel - site: Blue Mountain Vista Observatory (New Ringgold PA) - acquisition and processing: MaxIm DL 5.10 - Observation date: 2010.12.21 UT 08:10:11 - Photoshop combination of low-stretched and high-stretched versions of a stack of 31 eight-second exposures aligned on the moon.

Richard Steinberg, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Animation at http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~steinber ... _movie.gif

Copyright: Richard Steinberg

Lunar Eclipse Wallpaper Contest Yields Hundreds of Photos
NASA JPL-Caltech | 2011 Jan 20

[b]Winner of NASAJPL's I'm There: Lunar Eclipse Wallpaper Contest![/b] Thankful for clear skies, Keith Burns took this series of photos tracking the lunar eclipse's progress across the sky in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. [i](Copyright Keith Burns)[/i]

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December's total lunar eclipse, which coincided with the winter solstice, offered moon-gazers and photo-lovers the chance to capture one of the sky's most spectacular events. As a result, hundreds of people joined "NASAJPL's I'm There: Lunar Eclipse Group" on Flickr to share their photos and compete for the opportunity to have their snapshots turned into an official JPL Wallpaper at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/wallpaper.

After searching through the nearly 2,000 lunar eclipse photos at http://www.flickr.com/groups/imthere, we selected the 13 finalists above, who submitted unique and stunning perspectives of the Dec. 20-21 event and shared with us their stories of braving the cold, waiting out clouds, and even driving hours to capture the eclipse.

We were especially impressed by Keith Burns' photo montage, which captures the phases of the waning moon up through its red-orange glow at totality. Burns shot this series under clear skies in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey. His photo is now available for download as an official JPL wallpaper at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/wallpaper.

Flip through the slideshow above to view some of our other picks and vote for your favorite lunar eclipse scene. To find more lunar eclipse photos and learn about NASAJPL's "I'm There: Lunar Eclipse" campaign, visit: http://www.flickr.com/groups/imthere/.