{"id":4972,"date":"2015-09-28T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T09:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2015-09-28T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T09:39:57","slug":"lunar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/lunar-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/21763039482\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Moon-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/566\/21763039482_bcf42050c7_o.jpg\" width=\"1259\" height=\"839\" alt=\"Moon-3\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I saw a Tweet yesterday that essentially blamed a continuous stream of &#8220;once-in-a-lifetime&#8221; astronomical events as all being Brian Cox&#8217;s fault. An amusing conceit. I suspect it&#8217;s really that we&#8217;re a little more aware of our surroundings in the solar system these days. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, last night was a lunar eclipse that coincided with a so-called supermoon. Although the moon is up to 14% bigger than normal, you&#8217;re a better person that I if you can tell the difference. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for us in the UK, the eclipse proper wasn&#8217;t due to start until just after 3am on Monday morning. I did look out at around 1am when the eclipse is supposed to become first visible, but it really looked like a normal moon. So I went to sleep, setting my alarm for two hours later. <\/p>\n<p>I managed to sleep through some of the alarm &#8211; deep sleep I guess &#8211; but I pulled myself out of bed at about 4am, just after the eclipse was greatest. The photo above, and then afterwards, below, represent what I saw.<\/p>\n<p>The moon is actually quite dark during the eclipse. Yes, it turns red, but the reduced light makes it actually quite hard to photograph. I had to boost my ISO quite a bit, but on closer inspection on the computer 6400 ISO was too much noise to easily deal with in Lightroom. On my A77 MKII 3200 ISO was better. <\/p>\n<p>For the record, I was using my Sigma 70-200 2.8 lens, with a 1.4x teleconverter. Add in the fact that I was using a crop-sensor, that means an equivalent of roughly a 420mm lens. That still means plenty of cropping. Exposure lengths were variable, but the best images seemed to come around 1\/10 and 1\/6 second. Obviously the camera was tripod mounted, and I used manual focus, using focus peaking to determine the infinity setting on my lens. <\/p>\n<p>While I didn&#8217;t do anything smart like take a photo of the moon over a mountain range (London is short of mountain ranges), overall I&#8217;m pretty happy with things, but the photos could be better.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/21774615945\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Moon-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5656\/21774615945_f3b576772f_o.jpg\" width=\"1554\" height=\"1036\" alt=\"Moon-1\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adambowie\/21774615805\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Moon-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5642\/21774615805_5a9fa1a873_o.jpg\" width=\"1537\" height=\"1025\" alt=\"Moon-2\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a Tweet yesterday that essentially blamed a continuous stream of &#8220;once-in-a-lifetime&#8221; astronomical events as all being Brian Cox&#8217;s fault. An amusing conceit. I suspect it&#8217;s really that we&#8217;re a little more aware of our surroundings in the solar system these days. Anyway, last night was a lunar eclipse that coincided with a so-called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[571,569,61,45,570],"class_list":["post-4972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-lunar-eclipse","tag-moon","tag-photography-2","tag-space","tag-supermoon"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4974,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}