March 30, 2001 Great Aurora, seen all over North America Taken from home in southern Alberta, Canada 28mm Nikkor lens at f/2.8 Ektachrome E200 slide film about 40s second exposure looking southeast, moonlight lighting landscape Arcturus in frame Minimal color correction/enhancement. Number in file name is frame number on roll in order taken thru the display. Numbers higher than 36 = frame on second roll taken that night (i.e. 39 = #3 on second roll)
Composite image digitally created in Photoshop of images taken during October 27, 2004 total lunar eclipse, from Alberta Canada. Images taken through 5-inch apo refractor at f/6 with Canon Digital Rebel camera at ISO 200. Eclipse progresses in time through shadow from right to left. Exposures: #1: 1/320s; #2: 1/10s; #3 mid-totality: 8s, #4: 1/4s; #5: 1/640s. Scope at lunar drive rate. 5-image version is composite of #685 (mid @ 9:04pm) + #586 @ 7:21pm, #635 @8:14 + #742 @ 9:57pm, and #790 @ 10:49 pm. 3-image version is: Composite of #0624 @ 8:02pm, #0685 (mid @ 9:04) and #0751 @ 10:06pm. No filtering.
Total lunar eclipse November 8, 2003 Taken through Astro-Physics 5" Apo refractor at f/6 with MaxView 40mm eyepiece projection into a Sony DSC-V1 5 megapixel digital camera, mounted afocally. Lens zoomed to 3.8x to fill frame with Moon. Exposure aboout 4s to 6s at f/4 lens setting and ISO 100 speed.
