Posted on 05/23/2021 1:35:43 PM PDT by BenLurkin
If you’re hoping to get a spectacular, fill-the-frame shot, you’re going to want a long lens.
You'll certainly get more impressive results if you have a lens in the 500-600mm range....
...make sure your camera is shooting in raw+JPEG mode, as you'll likely want the extra editing leeway that raw files give you. This means you'll be able to tweak the exposure, contrast and clarity to bring out as much detail as possible.
Attach your longest lens and switch it into manual mode (usually denoted by an 'M' on the mode dial), as photographing a blood moon requires a bit of trial and error with your ISO and shutter speed. You may be able to rely on autofocus for your shot, but be prepared to switch to manual focus, which can also help you avoid having to refocus every time you take a snap. If you're including a landmark for foreground interest, focus on that.
A good starting point for the partial eclipse is to start at ISO 100, with an f/8 aperture and a shutter speed of somewhere between 1/125-1/250 sec. But when the total eclipse begins, you'll want to brighten your exposure to make sure the whole moon is well-exposed, rather than just the bright part.
Because you're likely shooting with a long lens and the moon will be moving through the sky, you'll want to keep the shutter speed relatively fast (ideally no slower than 1/2 sec). This means that ISO and aperture are your only really levers for adjusting the exposure. Keep your ISO between ISO 800-3200 and your aperture between f/4-f/8, though, and you'll maximize your chances of a good-quality shot. To improve your chances further, make sure you use your camera's self-timer rather than pressing its shutter button.
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when is this one again? that tonight or something?
I had a telescope with a rubber eyepiece and I put the lens of my digital camera up to that. I took a lot of nice pictures that way.
tanks
Yeah. Not flying to the west coast. No.
26th
All these weirdo pagan sounding names for a full moon. When I was a kid we only heard abut a full moon, a harvest moon or a Comanche moon.
A new fad I guess.
Not a new fad, just better methods of communication. Most of us only knew about moon names from our parents or the Farmer’s Almanac. Now they get names from everything from the Chinese zodiac to astrophysicists. You could call it rayleigh scattering but blood moon was coined before they understood what that was. It’s also called a flower moon in the farmer’s almanac because it arrived when flowers were blooming. When you see something like a Super Flower Blood Moon they are combining names.
My favorite is the Worm Moon.
Somehow, they know.
:)
Those are just folk names and were not in any sort of use 20 years ago. None of those names have any astronomical meaning that an astronomer would understand.
I think his Christianity has waned in America, people are searching for folk and Indian sounding things to latch onto.
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