[Closed] Super moon tonight

Just back and scoffing some toast after a 4hr session on Craigellachie near Aviemore. High hazy cloud ruined most of the spectacle but I still had a bit of an epiphany while cosied up in my bivvy bag sipping coffee.

I didn't have the hill to myself either. There was a mob of staff from the local Italian Restaurant up there having a party!

First time in weeks I've slept all night so completely missed it. 😆

I was up anyway at 3 giving antibiotics, made a bit of a racket doing that, so woke the whole family anyway and we all got a great view. Moon all red and just coming out of eclipse.

Superb and definitely was worth getting up for. Can we resurrect this thread in 2033? 😀

Thick fog here
Whole sky went red but couldn't see end of the steet let alone the moon

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I know one thing,
It's bloody hard to photograph without a tripod. With a wide-open aperture the exposure is a second and a half; impossible to hand-hold.
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Agreed a tripod is really useful, but try spot exposing the moon itself and shooting at around125sec with aperture around f9-11.

Echo what seosam says, seen it much reder and bigger than that because the last luna eclipse I saw was when the moon was nearer the horizon. 2018 has two of the buggers so don't fret, not too long to wait.

Typical. My wifes snoring normally has me up and about around 2am, but last night it was 4:30 and all was back to normal 🙁

Would have been perfect here. eclipse was straight out of my office window, across the water, between 15 and 6 degrees above the horizon. There's a pretty good telescope in the office too, and it's less than 2 miles from where I'm living.

Woke up with the alarm at 4 am. Cloudy. Back to bed!

I sat outside in the back garden from about 02:30 until 03:15 watching it slowly get more and more obscured by the shadow.
More practice required on getting the focus spot on.
Taken around 21:00
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Taken around 03:00
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(apologises, but my manual focus skills were clearly lacking on this one, but it gives you an idea)

Good effort bigyinn.
I got up for a look,but it was cloudy with us so only saw a faint orangey,mooney thing in the sky 🙁

Thanks!
The second one was disappointing, too late / early to be fannying around with cameras!

Amazing. Crashing round the spooky fields behind us at 3.30, remarkable. Annoyed with myself though as I couldn't remember how to turn off the auto mode on either camera and so they refused to take a shot - too dark!! Fool.

I don't have the luxury of a tripod so I used the slow breathing out technique

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I Like them!
What length lens were you using? I was using a Sigma 70-300mm on 300mm setting.

I was using my Panasonic TZ60

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didnt stay up for the eclipse

I only got a wee one 🙂
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And this was about 10 minutes after full eclipse ended, I think
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very nice Kit, and brave going up calton hill at that time of night!

Was pretty spectacular tonight too. Looked huge over the treetops, and the hazy sky was all lit up so that through the trees of Tunnel Hill the sky looked on fire too.

It was actually pretty busy up there. Lots of folk decided to go up to watch it, but I'd also arranged to meet a friend so strength in numbers 🙂

Day late to the party (as usual) but i just popped outside to get a moon shot as it's a clear night.

Lumix TZ 60 at full zoom on a dodgy tripod that kept wandering (not wandering as in [i]war of the worlds[/i] but the head kept moving)

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A mates 5 hr shot of the eclipse below, slightly better than mine…..humph!

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[url= https://twitter.com/s_k_shackleton ]original link to it here on his twitter feed[/url]

Excellent pictures

I love the time lapse one. Genuinely amazing IMHO.