I think I figured out why I live alone …
After teasing most of the southern hemisphere by hiding behind a thick layer of clouds the moon decided to appear around eight thirty in all its glory.
I like many others (that I know of) I AM (yes present tense) out in the back yard in a deck chair with camera set to 30 second exposures on a tripod wishing I had a telescope hooked up to it (the camera, not the tripod). The Internet and pages of Flickr via the wireless laptop keeping me company between exposures.
From what I could see on the LCD display I may have a few shots I’ll be happy with.
Really shouldn’t be out here as I am not feeling too crash hot (hence the reason I’m not at Army at the moment). The cold can’t be doing me much good.
I’ll let you know how I go with the photos.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:53 am
I took some photos too but they were all too blurred to bother with. I’m not sure if this was just a case of the exposures too long but even the 10 second ones weren’t great.
Otherwise it may have been the vibration of the mirror opening; should’ve used mirror lockup to prevent that. I was using the remote to release the shutter at least.
I did also have my telescope out towards the end, but really the magnification was too high. Also I didn’t really get going till late due to clouds, and by then the total eclipse had ended.
Still it was good to get the telescope out again and I should really get a camera adapter of some sort for it.