The Total Lunar Eclipse of December 2011 was a special one for me – it’s the first one where everything went right. After days of rain, the skies cleared on the night of the eclipse. My equipment worked flawlessly and the seeing was rock steady, giving me my sharpest images of a Total Lunar Eclipse.
Posts by Tag: Full Moon
The Blood Red Totally Eclipsed Moon
A Total Lunar Eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth in a straight line, and the shadow of the Earth is cast upon the Moon. The red colour occurs because of scattered sunlight reaching the Moon as it passes through Earth’s atmosphere.
December Full Moon 1 Hour Before the Lunar Eclipse
One our before Total Lunar Eclipse, I was taking some test images, getting focus right, and testing the upload process as I was planning to supply images to SLOOH as part of their lunar eclipse event. The seeing was absolutely fantastic, hardly any movement in the Moon and so I grabbed a quick 100 frames to produce this pre-eclipse Full Moon image.
Sydney at Dawn – The Full Moon Setting
When the Full moon is seen close to the horizon, it can look magnificent – especially when there’s trees, or mountains, or buildings to give it context. The Moon can look huge, thanks to the well documented Moon Illusion.
Unfortunately it’s difficult to capture the same “feeling” of the massive moon in a photograph; normally when you photograph it, it looks tiny – nothing like what it seemed with the naked eye. However with a long enough focal length, and the right foreground interest that you can also throw into focus, you can attempt to capture that “moon illusion” and re-live that impression of a huge Moon.
Sydney at Dawn – Artificial Light Partially Eclipses Natural Light
Without being too deep and philosophical, in this image I’ve captured Natural and Artificial Light together, with the Moon being partially eclipsed by the lamp post. Unfortunately for those of us living in or near the city, artificial light dominates the night sky and it’s all but impossible to see any stars.
Sydney at Dawn – Triple Panorama Treat
During some early morning photo shoots during May, I captured some of the landmarks of our famous city in a beautiful pre-dawn and dawn light.
They’ll form part of a Sydney At Dawn series, and the first in the series are 3 stunning panoramas, all captured on the 18th May 2011, all in slightly different lights as dawn fast approached.
How to Create a Colour Saturated Moon Photo
Why does the picture of the Moon above have those funky colours? You can’t see them with your eyes, or through the telescope like that, right?
Actually the colours are real – they’ve just been artificially boosted; amplified during processing. In this article, I’m going to show you how to process your lunar images to bring out those colours.
Colour Full Moon, September 2011
Who can resist a Full Moon? It’s been a few months since my last astrophotography effort, but I’m having fun with the Moon at the moment – it’s quick and easy and still high impact. So I went outside for September’s Full Moon (actually about 99% waning) and captured these images.
Pictures of the Total Lunar Eclipse, June 16th 2011
On June 16th 2011, we experienced a Total Lunar Eclipse, where the Full Moon moves into the Earth’s shadow – causing the Moon to turn deep red. I was travelling for work so I lugged 2 cameras and 2 tripods to Brisbane and met up with some IceInSpace friends including Dennis Simmons and Troy Piggins on the foreshore of the Brisbane River, overlooking Story Bridge and the city of Brisbane.
May 2011 Full Moon in Colour
Hi all Another month, another Full Moon. Trying to get back into the rhythm of astrophotography, during the May Full Moon we had great clear skies and I setup the ED80 and Canon 40D to capture some more images of our nearest celestial neighbour. I used the same setup and same procedure as my last [...]
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My name is Mike Salway and I'm an amateur astronomer and photographer. I'm the co-founder of IceInSpace, and this is my personal blog site and image gallery.
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