Bad Luck / Good Luck!
Rain thwarted plans to shoot this lunar eclipse from
my observatory site. Rain and heavy cloud cover the day before and all day
leading up to the eclipse made it look very unlikely that I'd see this
eclipse at all. But in the evening an unexpected hole in the clouds just
around the time of totality opened up, so I quickly went home and hastily
set up my digital camera and Borg scope for a few shots from in front of my home.
Clouds moved back in after totality ended, but not before
the partial phases of the eclipse were completely over as you can
see by the scattering visible in
last shot of this set (scroll right to see all images).
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| Date/Time: |
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20 Feb. 2008
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| Location: |
Cerritos, California
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| Scope/Lens: |
Borg 76ED @ f/6.6 (500mm)
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| Camera: |
Nikon D70s
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| Mount: |
[stationary tripod]
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Guider:
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[none]
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| Media: |
DSLR (ISO 400)
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| Exposure: |
1/2 sec. each
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