Fwd: [ATMoB-discuss] Tonight's Eclipse

[Eric Buehrens]

I saw it through a hole in the clouds from Watertown around 8, with a  
small portion just emerging from the umbra. Very nice, not much color  
at that point.

What is amazing to me about Chris' photos is that he captured 7th mag  
stars in the same frame as the full moon - with a 3.2 second exposure  
during twilight!

Just to the left of the moon:	Chi Leonis , mag. 4.59
	and above Chi: HIP45057, mag. 7.25
Just below the moon:	59 Leonis, mag. 4.96
Above and to the right:	56 Leonis, mag. 5.90
	to the right of 56: HIP53362, mag. 7.37
2º 45' away at the 4/5 o'clock position:	58 Leonis, mag. 4.81
Far right, 5º 23' away: 36 Sextantis, mag. 6.25

Only during an eclipse could you image stars this faint and still  
have detail across the disc of the moon, I guess. Beautiful shots.

Eric


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Bruce Berger" <bruce at scopemaker.com>
> Date: March 4, 2007 11:55:01 AM EST
> To: <atmob-discuss at atmob.org>
> Cc: chris at cookphoto.com
> Subject: RE: [ATMoB-discuss] Tonight's Eclipse
>
> What beautiful shots! The landscape mode is especially cool!
>
> Clear skies
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: atmob-discuss-bounces at atmob.org
> [mailto:atmob-discuss-bounces at atmob.org] On Behalf Of John Boudreau
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 11:40 AM
> To: atmob-discuss at atmob.org
> Subject: Re: [ATMoB-discuss] Tonight's Eclipse
>
> I had a few half-decent naked-eye and binocular views through a  
> couple of
> sucker holes that still contained varying thin clouds and haze.  
> Nothing
> worth photographing though.
>
> But my friend Chris Cook had better conditions down on Cape Cod,  
> and he has
> a couple of very nice shots here:
>
> http://www.abmedia.com/astro/current/lunareclipse-030307.html
>
> http://www.abmedia.com/astro/current/lunareclipse-030307-2.html
>
>
> ---John Boudreaux
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Berger" <bruce at scopemaker.com>
> To: <atmob-discuss at atmob.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 8:59 PM
> Subject: [ATMoB-discuss] Tonight's Eclipse
>
>
>> Go figure. I caught a couple of cloud fuzzed looks at the eclipse  
>> tonite,
>> and then when it's over, the sky clears to a beautiful moon.
>>
>> Did anyone have better luck?
>>
>> Bruce Berger
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