Bob Atkins’ excellent discussion of lunar eclipse photography<\/a> prior to starting to shoot the photos. Mine suffer from f-stops that are either too wide or not wide enough and exposures that are too long.<\/p>\nBecause the night was so clear, however, I did get a chance to take some photos of the starts, especially Orion, which I have long loved to gaze at. (Ironically, back in college I wrote a poem that included a lunar eclipse and “Orion’s belt pointed at the shadowed moon.” If I can find it I’ll post some lines that relate.) Here are a couple:<\/p>\n
Orion and the Little Dipper
\nPanasonic DMC-FZ50
\nTiffen 55mm UV Filter, Shady Setting
\nISO 200; F\/2.8; 25 seconds; 7.4mm<\/p>\n
Orion and the Little Dipper in Tungsten
\nPanasonic DMC-FZ50
\nTiffen 55mm UV Filter, Tungsten Setting
\nISO 200; F\/2.8; 30 seconds; 7.4mm<\/p>\n
All in all, a fun evening on the back deck. Totally worth staying up until 4:00am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Like thousands of others, last night I braved the chilly temperatures to photograph the first winter solstice lunar eclipse since 1638 and the last during my lifetime. I recently took an online photography class on night photography with the stunning photographer (and great teacher) Kent Weakley where I learned about photographing the moon, among other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,33,32],"tags":[37,159,26,166,160,164,54,165,56,163,162,167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billwolffphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billwolffphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billwolffphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billwolffphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billwolffphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/billwolffphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/billwolffphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billwolffphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billwolffphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billwolffphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billwolffphotography.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}