Dont forget...Total Lunar Eclipse: August 28 2007

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Aug 28, 2007 | 10:23 AM

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jamzwayne

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Originally Posted by Krohbar

Charlie, did you take those??? If you did, with what camera, lens? The best I have is a 70-300mmUSM-IS for my Rebel. And I wasn't steady enough on top of that.

My little Lumix didn't do the trick, and that was zoomed 16X on a tripod.

Aug 28, 2007 | 10:24 AM

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No, I did not take them. I am severely photographically challenged.

They were taken with, and I quote:

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Sony DSC-W30 and a Celestron Nexstar 114GT.

I know that Sony is supposed to be a pretty decent digital camera, but I have no idea what a Celestron is

Aug 28, 2007 | 10:28 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by CharlieHo

No, I did not take them. I am severely photographically challenged.

They were taken with, and I quote:

I know that Sony is supposed to be a pretty decent digital camera, but I have no idea what a Celestron is

Celestron Nexstar 114GT

Sony DSC-W30

Interesting.

Aug 28, 2007 | 12:58 PM

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Just like I thought, it was on the news.

Aug 28, 2007 | 01:18 PM

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Great pix - thanks!

BTW - purty soon, the OP is gonna need to change the thread title to:

"Don't forget to watch the Lunar Eclipse that was on last week"

bubba

Aug 28, 2007 | 02:01 PM

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Krohbar

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From: HUSKER COUNTRY, USA

This was the best I could do, hand held...

This was mid-eclipse...

Aug 28, 2007 | 02:04 PM

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Nice.

What'ya use?

Aug 28, 2007 | 02:10 PM

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wild-mtn-rose

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Cool pix!

Even though I'm a night person and stay up posting here until the wee hours...the hours that it appeared here were a little to wee for me. I slept through it.