Monday, December 20, 2010

Monday Night’s Lunar Eclipse

I'm going to try to take some photographs should the sky cooperate.

Here are some suggested settings for the camera.

All the times and f-stops are for 200 ISO, so you’ll have to adapt for other ISOs:

Full moon, or moon more than half visible: 1/60 sec. at f/16

Half to one-quarter of the moon visible: 1/30 sec. at f/16

Less than one-quarter of the moon visible: 1/15 sec. at f/16

Just the edge of the moon lit: 1 sec. at f/16

Fully eclipsed at beginning and end of totality: 4 sec. at f/5.6

Fully eclipsed, deepest totality: 8 sec. at f/5.

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