The Lunar Eclipse of 28 August 2007

Bob Townsend

The lunar eclipse images shown here were both made with my 200 mm F4 Takahashi astrograph and homemade German equatorial driven mount from my backyard observatory at an altitude of about 850 meters (2,800) feet near Placerville, California. The camera was a Canon 350D DSLR.

Figure 1 was exposed for 4 seconds at ISO 200 during mid eclipse. Figure 2 shows more stars as it is a composite of two different exposures, one at 20 seconds and ISO 800 for the stars and one at 4 seconds at ISO 200 for the moon. The two exposures were combined using Photoshop.

Figure 1. The copper-tinted moon at mid-eclipse.	Figure 2. Composite image of the eclipse made at two exposure speeds to show stars.