Settings for Upcoming Lunar Eclipse? The upcoming eclipse is too tempting to pass-up. Would someone kindly pls suggest settings for a D500 w/150-600 G2 lens attached. TY doclrb...

doclrb

The upcoming eclipse is too tempting to pass-up. Would someone kindly pls suggest settings for a D500 w/150-600 G2 lens attached.

TY

doclrb

Old Timer Loc: Greenfield, In.

Iso 100 Shutter 60 at f8. You can adjust your shutter or aperture from this setting accordingly. Remember the moon is about one half exposure noon time with full sun. As eclipse gets darker you will have to adjust your shutter and aperture as well as your ISO probably. I usually shoot in aperture priority and adjust accordingly. When it gets near total you will have change fast. Too slow a shutter will give you a oval shape to the moon as it is moving so you need a shutter speed 60 or higher.

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

Great site with more info than you may ever need about this subject.

EclipseWise

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

A recent topic:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-572574-1.html

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MichaelH Loc: NorCal via Lansing, MI

doclrb wrote:

The upcoming eclipse is too tempting to pass-up. Would someone kindly pls suggest settings for a D500 w/150-600 G2 lens attached.

TY

doclrb

A simple test you can perform before the big event is to try to get a decent exposure on the dark half of the non-full moon. That is the amount of light you will be getting (maybe even less) during the full eclipse. It will require your aperture fully open for your lens, a fast enough shutter to get no motion blur from the moon moving (check out the "500 rule for astronomy") and a high enough ISO to make it all work. Last year I was pretty surprised by how little light falls on the moon during the full eclipse.

500 rule is shutter speed needs to be lower than 500 divided by (the focal length of your lens times your crop factor). So for your D500 with the lens at 600mm you have 500/(600x1.53)= 0.54 seconds. Any exposure longer than half a second on a tripod will have blur from the moon's motion in the sky.

Good luck!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Some good links -

http://www.mreclipse.com/LEphoto/LEphoto.html
https://www.nikonusa.com/en/learn-and-explore/a/tips-and-techniques/how-to-photograph-a-lunar-eclipse.html
https://photographylife.com/landscapes/how-to-photograph-a-lunar-eclipse
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/tips-and-solutions/22-tips-for-photographing-a-lunar-eclipse
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar-eclipse-photography.html

doclrb

Many thanks to all for great info.

doclrb

Don, the 2nd son Loc: Crowded Florida

WOW What a great web site for eclipse info!!! Thanks for this!!

BBurns wrote:

Great site with more info than you may ever need about this subject.

EclipseWise

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Settings for the Lunar Eclipse? I believe the Queen uses the Wedgewood.

hpucker99 Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

doclrb wrote:

The upcoming eclipse is too tempting to pass-up. Would someone kindly pls suggest settings for a D500 w/150-600 G2 lens attached.

TY

doclrb

The website timeanddate.com will have the local times and elevation/azimuth information based on your location:

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/denver

Tommy II Loc: Northern Illinois

Old Timer wrote:

Iso 100 Shutter 60 at f8. You can adjust your shutter or aperture from this setting accordingly. Remember the moon is about one half exposure noon time with full sun. As eclipse gets darker you will have to adjust your shutter and aperture as well as your ISO probably. I usually shoot in aperture priority and adjust accordingly. When it gets near total you will have change fast. Too slow a shutter will give you a oval shape to the moon as it is moving so you need a shutter speed 60 or higher.

Thanks, I have the same camera and lens.

Dan Copeland Loc: Hamilton Ontario Canada

Lets see we all have digital camera and view our image right after we take them... And the moon eclipse is going to be well over 5 minutes really a lot longer. Since we can adjust our camera as we shoot to get the best exposure ..this should be a no brainier.