Super Harvest Total Eclipse
Image details:
This was a rare total lunar eclipse, this total eclipse was during the moon perigee, the Moons closest approach to the earth due to the elliptical orbit. also the time of the year it was a harvest moon, the first full moon after the start day of Autumn.
Technical details:
Optics: Celestron nexstar 8i tube with Celestron focal lenth reducer
Mount: Celestron Advance VX Mount
Camera: Sony ALPHA DLSR at primed focus
Date/location: September 27-2015 at 9:47pm time of 100% total, taken at my Backyard Observatory
exposure details: single 15second at ISO-400
This was a rare total lunar eclipse, this total eclipse was during the moon perigee, the Moons closest approach to the earth due to the elliptical orbit. also the time of the year it was a harvest moon, the first full moon after the start day of Autumn.
Technical details:
Optics: Celestron nexstar 8i tube with Celestron focal lenth reducer
Mount: Celestron Advance VX Mount
Camera: Sony ALPHA DLSR at primed focus
Date/location: September 27-2015 at 9:47pm time of 100% total, taken at my Backyard Observatory
exposure details: single 15second at ISO-400
