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Subject: [OM] Lunar eclipse - report from the front line
From: "Olaf Greve" <olaf_greve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:11:47 -0000
Hi,

I too watched the lunar eclipse last night:

At f4.5, with Provia 100F and spot metering on the moon the exposure time was about 6-7 seconds I estimate. The results will probably not be very good due to the haze but I suppose it was better than full overcast.

Over here it was a little bit hazy, but as opposed to my disastrous trip to Luxemburg to catch 1999's full solar eclipse, this time in my whereabouts (as opposed to most of the rest of the country) I got a pretty clear view!

Unfortunately my 300/4.5 is in Jaap's store for repairs, and I was rather uptied repairing Gioconda's bicycle. Nonetheless I did watch it every two minutes or so, indeed at one point the moon showed a kind of brownish/redish veil (I write "veil" as the haze made the redish/brownish colours look kinda like brown smoke), then after the full eclipse I was finished repairing the bicycle and decided to take some pictures of it after all. As the 300mm was still in Jaap's house (as mentioned) I decided to do some TC stacking, so I put the Oly 2xA on a Vivitar (70-150mm matched) 2xA + the 135/2.8, to obtain an effective 540/11, I used this with Provia 100F at f8, f5.6, f4 and f16 (multiply these numbers by 4 for getting the effective diaphragm), and used a single spot measurement on the moon (I also bracketed by -1/3, and -2/3). Perhaps something interesting will get out of it, but I do not expect much of it...

The North England pictures taken with the digital OM to which a URL was provided were really nice, I didn't get a view which was quite that clear, nonetheless the colours were similar over here and the view was not too bad...

Cheers!
Olafo
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