You know you're a homeschooler when your entire family stays up till 317 am to watch the total lunar eclipse on the solstice, and write eclipse poems while standing outside in 20 degree weather...
My artsy through the branches photo may be my favorite... You can just make out a sliver of the moon high above Mikro's head in the next photo. This was the best I could do hand holding my camera and still get both a person and the moon in frame. The large inset of the moon on the photo of Kev was taken with his camera on a tripod...
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How lucky! We went to bed because it was completely overcast. I rose a few times at night to look if I could catch a glimpse through a break in the clouds but there were no breaks, not even a crack :(. Oh well.
Thanks for writing about your experience but aren't you all dog tired?
Nice work! We were left with the extra camera (hubz went upstate with Chase and Sierra) so none of ours came out this time. :o(
I've mastered taking pictures of the moon with my own camera. I set it on low light on a tripod, get the moon in focus, zoom in as much as possible, and then use the camera timer to take the shot. Using the timer helps avoid any unnecessary movement while the shutter is processing the picture. Little trick I learned after years of photographing nighttime events. ;o)
Have a lovely Christmas!
Cristina
We were completely wiped out, and didn't get up the next day till much later than normal. But it was worth it. Sorry the clouds didn't cooperate with you. We wound up with overcast here too, just after totality. Which is a good thing, because otherwise Mikro would have insisted on staying up *all* night!
Hi, Cristina. Kev took his shots with a tripod, on timer, I think. I was too lazy to dig my tripod out, so I just held my breath and hoped. Back in the pre-digital camera days, I used to shoot the moon on a tripod with a cable release, to avoid vibration. Thinking of that makes me feel *old*... Did they get to see the eclipse upstate, too?
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