Taken October 27, 2004, with Pentax 6x7 camera and 55mm lens. Stopped down to f/16 for first half and second half, and opened up to f/2.8 and 40 second for totality exposure in mid-eclipse. Unfortunately, some frost formed on the lens at the end of the exposure causing the flaring at the top. Rats!
Taken October 27, 2004, with Pentax 6x7 camera and 90mm lens at f/4 and 10 minute exposure on Fuji 400F slide film (120 format). Mount tracked at sidereal rate so Moon is slightly elongated from its own motion. Moon is below stars of Aries and right of Pleiades star cluster. Hyades cut of at bottom left corner.
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.
