Regards,
Ian.
This was the last Total Solar Eclipse that took place in 1973 that lasted a little longer in 1973 with the maximum period of Totality lasting in length of 7 minutes 3.55 seconds. Then the last Total Solar Eclipse to exceed more than in 1973 and the last to exceed 7. Minutes before 1973 was in the year 1098 and lasted at maximum totality was 7 minutes 5 second in length.
About 30 minutes ago, I rushed out to back garden to try and photograph a Red Kite that was flying low, close to me and with sun shining on it. The beastie wouldn't cooperate, and flew off.
I noticed that the moon was up, and brightly lit. I had camera in hand (Canon 80D) with lens, Sigma 150-600mm contemporary, and thought why not. Pointed the thing at the moon and took a few photos for fun.
This one was with Auto shooting mode (Canon P), and it decided that 1/1600th sec, f/6.3 and ISO 500 was fine. I shot this hand held. I know, I'm a heathen. However, I was in the middle of making my supper, and couldn't be bothered to find my tripod.
Relenting a bit, I stood in back door and jammed lens into corner of door frame for stability. Set the camera to shutter priority (Canon Tv). I had set the speed to 1/3200. The camera decided that f/6.3 and iso of 1000 would be adequate.
It was a touch hazy. With wispy cloud drifting across moon every now and again. After a dozen shots, I went back to cook my supper. Quite pleased with these.
90% luck, 5% field craft, 5% camera skills.
In reply to Mike B:
Regards
Kathy and Dave
Having eaten our supper, the Memsaab pointed out to me that the moon was still visible. It was almost completely dark, so I thought I'd have another crack at photographing the beastie. This time with tripod.
Not bad, considering the amount of light pollution we get from 'aurora Wokingham', plus our neighbours' security lights; oh, and the street lights out front.
Unfortunately, my tripod is a cheap, lightweight jobbie. I was also pointing the thing virtually vertically, making it awkward to look through view finder. Thus, there was a slight wobble.
This is where I bite the bullet and hook up my Android phone to my Canon, and get it to do a remote shutter release.
Still, very pleased with photo, especially as I used to have to set my camera to ISO 100, F/10 or higher, with a shutter of about 1/60th. Now, I can be dead lazy, and point the whole contraption at the moon. Probably losing a lot of detail I could get if I did it properly, but that is where I buy an attachment to connect camera to our astronomical telescope.
In reply to Angus M:
https://www.nasa.gov/https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_tv_schedule_for_week_of_01-30-2023.pdf If your interested in space, live launches of unmanned and manned spacecraft, live coverage of big astronomical events, live coverage of spacewalks outside of the International Space Station, as well as documentaries, educational astronomical programmes. Two NASA TV channels broadcast worldwide and free of charge. You can can receive these two NASA channels either in the UK online and it’s so easy to transferred to your TV from the NASA using the chromecast adapter. Two links above the NASA Homepage and a look at the 7 day advance NASA Public Channel broadcast 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. You can also watch the NASA 24 hour media channel, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, but there is no 7 day, 24 TV schedule for the NASA Media TV channel. apps.apple.com/.../id334325516 The above is the NASA App for Apple to download free of charge.. There is also an app for Android Devices. Also NASA TV can be received I think though Amazon TV’s through streaming! Also the Two NASA TV channels can be receive via Youtube as well as through the NASA website. Again as I say I hope all the different links works. And all the links work.
This is what the NASA App Homepage looks like below!
www.youtube.com/.../M26s9nfQ7DA This was the last live USA Space walk on NASA including a Japanese astronaught and that previous live broadcast in the link above lasted over 9 hours plus in length. The Russian Cosmanaughts space walks are broadcast live as well when they take place