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#1 Post by **rkawakami** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:01 am

Here on the West Coast, we were treated to a great, almost four hour show in the sky last night. Well, actually, early this morning. I used my Canon A510 on a tripod with a 15 second exposure to get a couple of pictures. Here's one of them about 30 minutes before peak totality:

pianowizard · #2 Post by **pianowizard** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:04 am

Ray, you stay up so very late!

#3 Post by **rkawakami** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:15 am

Figured I'd do an all-nighter since I was staying up until 4:30am to watch the eclipse. Have to take the younger daughter to school at 7am so I thought it would be easier to stay awake then it would be drag myself out of bed after only two hours of sleep.

#4 Post by **KristianJ** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:20 am

It was a fabulous view from western Sydney! I didn't take any pics, but a friend of mine did - I don't think she'd mind me posting a link to them (some other randomish pics in the album, but they're clean):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10296448@N08/

Camera's a Fujifilm S6500fd on tripod - exposure times vary.

dsigma6 · #5 Post by **dsigma6** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:46 am

If it started at 2AM on the east coast, I probably would've stayed up...but not 5AM!

I love this stuff..

Purcy · #6 Post by **Purcy** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:47 am

Oh thank you for that photo Ray. DH told me there would be an eclipse last night but of course I fell to sleep. Beautiful shot!

#7 Post by **dorronto** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:00 am

Great photo Ray..My son got up at 5:30am here on the east coast but it was too cloudy for pics.........

Ron

#8 Post by **rkawakami** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:09 am

I'm quite surprised that this 3.2MP Canon with only a 3x zoom lens got some passable pictures. Played around with a couple of settings and then settled on 15 second exposures, F8.0, manual focus at infinity, ISO 100. Maybe next February I'll mate a camera to my telescope and see if I can get some clearer pictures:

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/L ... Feb21.html
http://www.hermit.org/Eclipse/2008-02-21/

That one will be at a better hour; 7-8pm I believe for us on the West Coast.

#9 Post by **gator** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:52 am

Awesome pic Ray ...

(now what did you do with the stars?)

#10 Post by **rkawakami** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:58 am

gator wrote:(now what did you do with the stars?)

You can download the original image (500KB) from here:

http://www.kawakami-ca.com/images/2007_ ... ipse_1.jpg

If you look closely you can see what you wish for...

#11 Post by **Kyocera** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:17 am

Ray, that is a beautiful picture, I was wondering what you were up to at O'dark thirty hours this AM

.

Website · #12 Post by **tfflivemb2** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 11:30 am

Wow, thanks fo much Ray...I got up to try to watch it, but we had a wierd lightning storm, and it was completely overcast...

#13 Post by **gator** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:07 pm

rkawakami wrote: http://www.kawakami-ca.com/images/2007_ ... ipse_1.jpg
If you look closely you can see what you wish for...

Thanks for my new wallpaper!

#14 Post by **rkawakami** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:46 pm

LOL! Now that I look at the big picture (pun intended), the almost fully eclipsed moon appears to be a trackpoint cap!

#15 Post by **gator** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:54 pm

rkawakami wrote:LOL! Now that I look at the big picture (pun intended), the almost fully eclipsed moon appears to be a trackpoint cap!

That trackpoint cap needs to be cleaned ... toothpast and toothbrush anyone?

#16 Post by **rkawakami** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:27 pm

I didn't try to get any shots at the peak eclipse time since I was having a hard enough time framing the moon. Could barely see a smudge on the camera's LCD to know that I was aiming at the right spot. The little bit of white glow at the bottom was the only thing that kept me pointed at the right area.

Kristian's friend got some very good pics too (fourth post from the top). I took about 20 shots; I'll see if I can get some of the better ones posted later today.

Thane_Bitter · #17 Post by **Thane_Bitter** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:40 pm

Nice Shots guys!!
Only a partial eclipse was visible from here, still it was fun to watch.

syedj · #18 Post by **syedj** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:53 pm

Very nice Ray.

Here on the East coast it was too close to the sunrise and it was already getting light when the eclipse started. Maybe I am just finding excuses for my over exposed pictures

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