Re: [APML] OT: an eclipse sequence

["Chris Cook" <ccjd@ix.netcom.com>]

Stan -

Although my skies here are not "very dark", it is mag 6.2 on a good night.
I agree with you about the Milky Way during the eclipse.  It just popped out
during totality, a great experience.  It ranks as probably the most
beautiful total lunar eclipse I've seen.

Chris

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Chris Cook
Astronomical & Nightscape Photography
www.abmedia.com/astro

-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Richard <stanrichard@hotmail.com>
To: astro-photo@seds.org <astro-photo@seds.org>
Date: Monday, November 10, 2003 4:47 AM
Subject: [APML] OT: an eclipse sequence


>If Jerry's is OT then this one is too since I used a Nikon digital.  We
were
>clouded out in Des Moines so we drove an hour north on the Interstate, then
>my wife calls me on my cellphone and says it cleared up in Des Moines just
>in time for the eclipse.....sheesh.  I froze my butt off shooting these so
I
>figured I just as well post it.    Had the 80mm short tube set up for some
>hand-held thru-the-eyepiece shots during totality but the batteries
couldn't
>take the cold either and went dead on me and I stupidly forgot to bring
>spares.   My fingers were hurting and numb anyway so we packed up and
>watched the rest of it on the way home.   Although we WERE in very dark
>skies and seeing the bright Milky Way overhead and the totally eclipsed
moon
>together was pretty neat.  Comments always welcome.
>
>http://www.nightskyevents.com/lunareclipse_110803.jpg
>
>
>
>Stan Richard
>Events in the Night Sky
>www.nightskyevents.com
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