Lunar Eclipse Shot (Blood Moon)
Feb 2, 2018 22:32:47 #
Ballard
Loc: Grass Valley, California
Hi Folks at 5:20AM the other morning I took the following shot of the Moon while it was still in the total eclipse phase. This photo was taken at the prime focus of an 5 inch Apochromatic Refractor with a 950mm focal length (f7.5). The exposure was 2 seconds long with the ISO set to 1000. This image has been reduced to 600x600 pixels from the original size of 4480X4480 pixels. Stars show up more clearly in the original (down to about 11th magnitude) but if you look closely you can see some of the 7th to 9th magnitude stars in this reduced image. For those interested the moon was in the constellation of Cancer (The crab) at the time of this photo. To the naked eye the moon was considerably dimmer than seen here. Feel free to comment.
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