Eclipse pix

[Popoki_Nui]

A couple of pix for ya. First Contact (eclipse begins), Halfway to Totality, and Totality. I like to do very minimal image processing, so what you see is pretty much what my cameras saw. Hope you enjoy. :)
edit: added a pic: just a moment before Totality. Forgot to include it originally. Me sleepy.

[Eden]

Very cool - do you have a camera mounted on a telescope?

[indysteel]

Very cool indeed. Thanks so much for sharing. I've passed the pics on to a bunch of friends.

[LBTC]

Fabulous, Sherry! Much nicer than what my camera would have captured. Thank you for sharing!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[SheFly]

Those pics are AWESOME! Thanks so much for sharing them with us.

SheFly

[KnottedYet]

Thank you! Love that red light at totality, very cool. (is it reflected earthlight?)

[Bad JuJu]

I read somewhere recently that the red light doesn't start out red, but looks red to us because we see it through the filter of our blue sky. Not sure what color + blue = red, though.

Excellent pix--thanks for sharing!

[Popoki_Nui]

Very cool - do you have a camera mounted on a telescope?

Yes, sometimes I mount it "piggyback" on top a scope, and other times (like this morning) I shoot directly thru the scope. It all depends on the application. Here is this morning's setup (it's my "portable rig'):

[Popoki_Nui]

Thank you! Love that red light at totality, very cool. (is it reflected earthlight?)

Partly, but mostly because the longer red wavelengths of sunlight pass through our atmosphere (and smoke/water vapor/pollution)around the edges of the Earth, and on to the moon during a lunar eclipse, while the shorter blue wavelengths are scattered throughout our atmosphere (essentially the same reason sunsets are reddish).

[Zen]

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb14/zencentury/RedMoon-1.jpg

Just in case you might want to delete your photos, that signature doesn't really protect any copyright infringement issues especially on such a generic image.

[mimitabby]

The moon didn't look red here, it was a dull brown, thanks to all of our light pollution!!!

[Python]

Awsome pics. The clarity is startling:D

I like videoing lightning. Chased a really good storm last year and got some great footage of the lightning. Played it back on the video frame by frame. Had hoped to run it through the PC so I could freeze frame some of the better ones to make still photos with - and can't find the video for the life of me:( Unfortunately I taped over the original.

I'd like to do this with a camera rather than a camcorder. Anyone recommend the best type of camera for doing this?

[Ninabike]

Those pix are SO beautiful. Thank you so much for posting

[Starfish]

Wow, thanks! My brother saw it, but I missed it, and I was feeling envious! Thanks for the pics!

[indysteel]

Sherry, I thought of these pictures, when I got an email today from National Geographic about getting your own pictures published in the magazine. Your shots are a shoe-in.

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/yourshot/index.html

[Ninabike]

[QUOTE=indysteel;239274]Sherry, I thought of these pictures, when I got an email today from National Geographic about getting your own pictures published in the magazine. Your shots are a shoe-in.

Funny thing indysteel, I was thinking the exact same thing. Those photos are definitely National Geographic material.

[short cut sally]

WOW..thanks for sharing..I never knew there was an eclipse coming..I slept thru the whole thing. Your pics are better than what I would've seen anyways. I live in the country and can see the sky beautifully. But seems like there is always a haze or clouds that fill the sky and can never see anything.

[Zen]

Awsome pics. The clarity is startling:D

I like videoing lightning.

I'd like to do this with a camera rather than a camcorder. Anyone recommend the best type of camera for doing this?

I like to do that with my old film camera. Unfortunately it's inop right now :(
Any camera that lets you choose the shutter speed will do fine. Try experimenting with different (slow) speeds and short time exposures.