Lunar Eclipse / Ansel Adams Birthday

A combination of events is happening this Wednesday February 20th and I wanted to share it with the lightstaler community. The path of a total lunar eclipse will be visible (atmospheric conditions cooperating) for us in North America, Central / South America, Western Europe, Africa and Western Asia on what would be the 106th birthday of famous american photographer / author and conservationist Ansel Adams. I will be leading a group of photographers and outdoor enthusiasts on a short hike to observe and photograph this celestial event in Boulder, Colorado on Wednesday, February 20th. If this gathers interest from others I think it would be great to put together a collage of images of the eclipse from all over the world in the path of the this celestial event to commemorate Ansel Adams on a special birthday he would have appreciated.

by Peter Steele at Mon Feb 18 20:04:22 UTC 2008 (ed. Mar 12 2008) Colorado, United States | Bookmark this | Digg this |

Thanks for the info, I’ll photograph it

by Andrew Wheeler | 18 Feb 2008 21:02 | Paris, France |

Just in case you’ve never tried this, here’re a couple great resources:
http://www.eclipse-chasers.com/lunar/leclphot.htm
http://www.mreclipse.com/LEphoto/LEphoto.html

by ted dillard | 18 Feb 2008 22:02 | boston, ma, United States |

Thanks for the links Ted, very helpful.

by Peter Steele | 19 Feb 2008 04:02 | Colorado, United States |

Damn I’m out of the path. There’s a diagram on this page that shows its path relative to a map of the world.
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2008Feb21/TLE2008Feb21.html

by BignoseTW | 19 Feb 2008 07:02 | Taipei, Taiwan |

Thanks a lot everyone for these links! Looks like it’s going to be a late night

by Andrew Wheeler | 19 Feb 2008 08:02 | Paris, France |

Hey how wonderful. How fun! I’ll definitely be there in spirit. Here’s a link I’d like to share—contributing to the spirit of the event and the last impressions of Ansel Adams! How to photograph a Moonbow
and this site from Texas State

by Ana Elisa Fuentes | 19 Feb 2008 17:02 (ed. Feb 19 2008) | Bavaria, Germany |

bumpy bump

by ted dillard | 20 Feb 2008 16:02 | boston, ma, United States |

Clouds are threatening along the front range in Colorado today and tonight.
Fingers crossed for a timely patch of clear skies. Best of luck to the rest of you trying to capture the event.

by Peter Steele | 20 Feb 2008 16:02 | Colorado, United States |

Good luck. Maybe the satelite will come down as well.
MK

by Marc Kelly | 20 Feb 2008 19:02 | Brooklyn, NY, United States |

GOT A GREAT, BEAUTIFUL VIEW, AS MRS. B AND I WERE WALKING FROM DOWNTOWN TO AND THEN THROUGH THE HOOD….RED-0RANGE, LIKE A TIGER’S WET FUR :)))))...

GORGEOUS….

Y’ALL WANT TO MOVE TO TORONTO NOW :))

CHEERS
B

by Bob Black | 21 Feb 2008 03:02 | toronto, Canada |

Very nice Bob! Boulder was layered in thin high clouds and kept me from getting a good view.

by Peter Steele | 21 Feb 2008 04:02 | Colorado, United States |

Same here Peter-wish I’d paid you a visit Bob :-))
Anyone get any shots ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Lunar_eclipse_February_21%2C_2008%2C_Millersville%2C_PA.jpg

by John Watts-Robertson | 21 Feb 2008 07:02 (ed. Feb 21 2008) | somewhere, United Kingdom |

I may have gotten a few, but all I had was a 30D with a 70-200 and a 1.4X converter, (about 448mm true focal length)...and no tripod, but a monopod.

We had a great view here up until about 10:30 when the clouds rolled in and covered it almost completely.

by Andrew Brinkhorst | 21 Feb 2008 13:02 | Lexington, KY, United States |

Shake rattle and roll !! Post em up then Andrew! I had planned to do just that seeing as it happened in the UK at 3-4 a.m. when the days papers were already printed and would be old news by the time Sunday’s papers roll out.
Looks like I’ll have to wait until my retirement in 2015 :-((

by John Watts-Robertson | 21 Feb 2008 15:02 | somewhere, United Kingdom |

Ok, I got a couple I guess….

http://imageevent.com/j_andrew/lunareclipse08

I didn’t think to take off the extender when it went into the full umbra stage, it would have given me another stop worth of light…

Wish I’d had a tripod handy! The shots published in the papers here were all captured with telescope setups…

by Andrew Brinkhorst | 21 Feb 2008 20:02 (ed. Feb 21 2008) | Lexington, KY, United States |

Very nice Andrew, thanks for sharing. Telescope with tracking is the way to go for sure!
I must make light of my frustrating situation last night in cloudy Boulder with this link.

http://www.steelephoto.com/photo.php?set_id=1&pic_num=23

by Peter Steele | 21 Feb 2008 22:02 | Colorado, United States |

LOL – That certainly is a different looking moon!

by Andrew Brinkhorst | 21 Feb 2008 23:02 | Lexington, KY, United States |