Thursday, October 09, 2014

20141008 Total Lunar Eclipse

Equipment Line-up:-
  • Mark-X with hand controller, 
  • Canon 200mm lens with 2x tele-extender
  • Eyepiece adapter, eyepiece, barlows, diagonal (not used finally)
  • Camera, shutter release
  • Canon 10x30 IS binoculars
  • Gitzo G106 with 410 head
Location: Tsim Sha Tsui, Avenue of Stars

Met some old astronomy buddies:-


 My simple setup:-






Mostly cloudy, the only successful shot was taken at during a cloud break of around 8s, but the exposure itself took 4s, so only had a few seconds for centering the target and focus.

The only successful shot, 400mm at f/5.6, ISO 800, 4s exposure:-



Some less than successful shots:-



I was captured by TVB:-

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=751378074897355

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