12/10/2011 at 6:15am taken from Cowles Mountain in San Diego California. I got up at 3:45am to drive to the site and then had to walk approximately 1.25 miles up the steep trail with my equipment in a back pack, quite a task for a 68 year over weight guy with MS. The eclipse was very beautiful in person and was worth the effort I had put into it. Unfortunately, shortly after the total eclipse the moon slipped into the ocean marine layer. I used two raw exposures with my Canon 7d and Canon 200mm f4 zoom lens to make this photo. I processed using Photoshop using some Tony Kuyper layer luminance selective masking and image adjustments to get the scene into range.
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12/10/2011 at 6:00am. A panoramic shot to the east on Cowles Mountain using 5 exposures with Photoshop auto merge.
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12/10/2011 6:05am from Cowles Mountain to the west with the Coronado Islands in the background. Asembled using two raw exposures, using the same technic as the first photo above.
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2/20/2008 Because of rain and overcast
in San Diego, I and Jose Magsaysay drove 80 miles east to
Imperial California for the eclipse. The conditions
were in the 60's, very severe blowing dust, seeing was about
3/6. I used my Canon 40d with a Canon 70-200mm, F4 lens
with 1.4 teleconvertor on a Bogan tripod. The total focal
length was 200x1.4x1.6 = 448. My TV85 or C8 would
have been a better choice but the conditions were to extreme to
break out my astro imaging equipment. At 8:00 pm the moon
got clouded over and we packed up for the night. I used
Images Plus 3.0 and Photoshop CS3 to compose this collage. |
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10/27/2007 A short break in the cloudy rainy weather allowed me to get this quick shot in my home driveway at San Diego, CA. Taken with my new TV-85 refractor, Nikon 4500, manual focus at infinity, ep 28mm WA ScopeTronix; with adapter, 1 frame, processed in Photoshop 6;levels, hue, Gaussian blur, unsharp mask. I am not happy with the purple fringing. |
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11/8/2003 This is a shot of moon with the Umbra shadow about to leave within 15 minutes. The background is graphics done with Photoshop, 6.3 Meade FR (I still need way more FOV), Nikon 4500, manual focus at infinity, ep 28mm WA ScopeTronix with adapter, 1 frame, processed in Photoshop 6-levels, hue, noise, and graphic filters. |
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11/8/2003 Totality is beginning to leave now, location TDS near Campo, CA, LX200gps, 8", 6.3 Meade FR (I still need way more FOV), Nikon 4500, manual focus at infinity, ep 28mm WA ScopeTronix with adapter, 1 frame, processed in Photoshop 6-levels, hue, noise |
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11/8/2003 At Totality the moon had a orange cherry eerie color, location TDS near Campo, CA, LX200gps, 8", 6.3 Meade FR I still need way more FOV), Nikon 4500, manual focus at infinity, ep 28mm WA ScopeTronix with adapter, 1 frame, processed in Photoshop 6-levels, hue, noise despeckle, and unsharp mask. Conditions intermittent clouds. |
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5/15/2003 Full Lunar Eclipse. TDS near Campo, CA, LX200gps, 8", Nikon 4500, full Zoom, manual focus at infinity, aperture f10.3, ep 28mm WA ScopeTronix with adapter for Nikon cp4500 camera, 1 frame, processed in Photoshop 6. |
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5/15/2003 Lunar Eclipse about 75% complete. TDS near Campo, CA, LX200gps, 8", Nikon 4500, full Zoom, manual focus at infinity, aperture f10.3, ep 28mm WA ScopeTronix with adapter for Nikon cp4500 camera, 1 frame, processed in Photoshop 6. |
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5/15/2003 The night of the Lunar Eclipse at Tierra Del Sol, Calif. |
