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Total Lunar Eclipse - 2/20/2008

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Uploaded by on Feb 21, 2008

Here's a video I did of some images I took of last night's lunar eclipse. I took them about 5 minutes apart and put them in this video so that you see the eclipse happen about 60 times faster than it really did.

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  • How did you get each frame to precisely overlay on the previous frame? Your earlier comments suggest that you did not use any electronic tracking.

  • No, they were aligned in post.

  • Wow, that must have been tedious, but I am really impressed. A company called Orion has a relatively cheap ($200?) equatorial mount available to synchronize with the sidereal rotation of the earth for clicking astrophotography.  Your only job is to align the motor's axis to be parallel with the earth's axis (hint: the North Star, Polaris.)

  • I've looked into those, but I don't do enough of this to make it worth the price. It wasn't that tedious, as it was a series of stills and not a video.

  • At 2:12 I'm actually able to grasp how big Earth is compared to the Moon. Absolutely stunning.

  • Even the ancient Greeks saw that. They knew the ratio of the size of the Earth to the size of the Moon. I wrote about that in my blog, and made a composite of that image I took and the full Earth shot from the Apollo missions. Check it out!

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  • Oh no! Shane made moongod dissappear! Shane must have strong magic. Shane control the skygods!

  • excellent work BTW

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  • Acts 2:20

    'THE SUN WILL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESSAND THE MOON INTO BLOOD,BEFORE THE GREAT AND GLORIOUS DAY OF THE LORD SHALL COME. (eclipse). Note: the next few lunar and solar eclipse fall on Jewish feast days. History repeats itself. Luv

  • Oh noes! The devil made the moon vanish!

    And by the way, there were never any people on the moon!

    Nah, just yankin' ya!

  • I watched the one March 2007 too. Last one until 2010. :(

  • Wonder if Dracula's castle appeared that night too? Looks like the castlevania moon.

  • whoa the dark side is comming

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