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Voyager
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Initially Posted - 09/23/2015 :  18:46:13  Show Profile
According to NASA TV, this weekend we are scheduled to experience a total lunar eclipse with a supermoon. It'll be a full eclipse here in New England. The "Hunter's Moon". Sunday night, can't wait.
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Response Posted - 09/24/2015 :  05:13:08  Show Profile
Yep, I can't wait. Hope the clouds stay away. Here's a few shots I took holding my Lumix digital up to the lens on my Meade telescope the other day. Not the clearest but not bad without a camera mount.
Daytime shot

Nightime shot
Scott-"IMPULSE"87'C25/SR/WK/Din.#5688
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Response Posted - 09/24/2015 :  06:04:57  Show Profile
Sunday night the moon will become a pale orange, lit only by the refracted light from the earth's atmosphere as it passes through our shadow. The forecast is shaky for my neck of the woods...
Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 09/24/2015 :  12:43:04  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
Will be interesting to see the state of the spring tide.

NOAA animation of Neaps & Springs

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Response Posted - 09/24/2015 :  14:04:11  Show Profile
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Originally posted by britinusa

Will be interesting to see the state of the spring tide.
We're expecting about an extra foot (~33%) in the tide range then.
Dave Bristle
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 09/24/2015 :  19:10:57  Show Profile
Wow! 33% on the Great Lakes could amount to almost 2 centimeters.

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Response Posted - 09/27/2015 :  05:36:49  Show Profile
Even Saturday on Western Long Island Sound we had much higher tides (@1 ft) than usual with the highest anticipated for Monday morning.
Peter Bigelow
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Response Posted - 09/27/2015 :  14:06:38  Show Profile
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Originally posted by islander

Yep, I can't wait. Hope the clouds stay away. Here's a few shots I took holding my Lumix digital up to the lens on my Meade telescope the other day. Not the clearest but not bad without a camera mount.
Daytime shot

Nightime shot


"You know, there really is no dark side of the moon"...

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Voyager
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Response Posted - 09/27/2015 :  18:27:55  Show Profile
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Can you live stream your video?
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 09/27/2015 :  20:25:47  Show Profile
Of course I had no charged batteries for the DSLR. I had a hope for some salvation in that Chris's Nikon P530 has manual options for everything but focus and can't save in RAW format. About 10 times of forcing the shutter when autofocus was approaching focus resulted in one tolerable photo.
Lunar Eclipse
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 09/27/2015 :  20:40:47  Show Profile
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"You know, there really is no dark side of the moon"...


Blasphemous for those of us who came of age in the years of enlightenment from the mid-sixties to early seventies. When asked about my younger years, I always say (and no more details) that being young and single in Southern California in the sixties wasn't all bad.

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islander
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Response Posted - 09/28/2015 :  06:46:03  Show Profile
Well we really lucked out that the cloud cover we had all day parted in time for the event. I didn't bother with the telescope but opted for binoculars. The binoculars worked better since I wasn't looking for close up detail like craters,mountains or little men. Truly awesome! Dave, The moon can be hard to get a good shot of when it is full. It is very bright and usually puts the camera into a fit. Probably have to go into manual settings and filters but those are darn good!
Scott-"IMPULSE"87'C25/SR/WK/Din.#5688
Sailing out of Glen Cove,L.I Sound


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redeye
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Response Posted - 09/28/2015 :  07:11:24  Show Profile
Famous shot by ansel adams.. Moon rise over hermandez or something.. and the story goes he didn't have enough time to get out his light meter so he made a quick calculation for the exposure based on the exposure of the moon which is a constant.. the daylight exposure because it is basically daylight falling on an object..



ASA 100 F11 1/250 sec. ( for a clear night. )

Anyhoo.. we had a cloudy night here.
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Stinkpotter
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Response Posted - 09/28/2015 :  19:50:55  Show Profile
It can be amazing what you can do with digital photos, even when the original version looks vastly over- or under-exposed. Adjusting brightness and contrast in a simple photo editor can reveal information you never guessed was in the photo--faces can appear from the darkness, and craters can appear on moon where the camera was adjusting to the dark sky. Too bad I didn't get something to work with Sunday night.
Dave Bristle
Association "Port Captain" for Mystic/Stonington CT
PO of 1985 C-25 SR/FK #5032 Passage, USCG "sixpack" (expired),
Now on Eastern 27 $+!nkp*+ Sarge
Edited by - Stinkpotter on 09/28/2015 19:51:58
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islander
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Response Posted - 09/29/2015 :  06:48:40  Show Profile
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About 10 times of forcing the shutter when autofocus was approaching focus resulted in one tolerable photo.

Ahh, But that's the beauty of digital cameras, Click,Click,Click,Del,Del, Del, Save and tweak. Remember the old days of Click Click Click then send the roll off to be developed just to be disappointed with the results a week later. Sure was a lot of wasted Kodachrome.
Scott-"IMPULSE"87'C25/SR/WK/Din.#5688
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 09/29/2015 :  09:57:55  Show Profile
Unfortunately, we had cloud cover the whole night so we didn't see anything. Thunderstorm going on right now.
DavidP
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 09/29/2015 :  17:14:48  Show Profile
A little hint about jpeg: your photo is recompressed every time you close it and can deteriorate over time. Save it initially to your computer at maximum quality, duplicate it and edit the duplicate. Save a copy of the edited copy as a backup. When the photo doesn't look as good as you remember you can duplicate the edited backup without reopening it to replace the worn copy. More compression is fine for emails, phones and the like. RAW and Digital Negative are either uncompressed or use a lossless compression algorithm that can make for very large files. You should use RAW or DN for your original if available.

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