[Leica] Blood Moon Eclipse practice photo

[Howard Ritter]

Very nice result from a camera lens and EFL of 420mm, Howard. Especially hand-held.

I’ll be picturing it with a Nikkor 80-400 zoom. Unfortunately, I’m stuck in Ohio under 8” of fresh snow that fell over the last 24h, and tomorrow night’s temps will be 0° F or below by mid-eclipse just after midnight EST. Setting up a tripod would involve shoveling snow, so I’m going to do what I can hand-held at high ISO with a fast shutter.

My 1085mm FL, 155mm f/7 apo refractor, of course, is spending the winter in Florida. I’m going to join it 6 days too late.

—howard

> On 19Jan, 2019, at 2347, Howard Cummer via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Luggers,
> 
> Tomorrow night is the blood moon eclipse so tonight I had a bit of practice with the Nikon D500
> and the 300f4.0PF plus 1.4 extender. The moon rises up through the trees of our
> property and I had to choose between clouds sweeping by and branches waving in the
> wind. Hopefully tomorrow conditions will be better:
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/bloodMoon.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/bloodMoon.jpg.html>>
> 
> ISO 400, f8.0 1/800 handheld with VR on normal. Cropped to about 1/4 of the frame and massaged in LR.
> 
> Please view large if you like. C&C always welcome.
> 
> Howard 
> 
> 
> 
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