Sunday, October 30, 2005
Solar System Portrait
Taken in one morning (between 5 and 11 a.m.) in a very cold late December, 2004. The sun was rather inactive (spot-wise). Oh boy! - my computer clock JUST switched from 2:00 back to 1:00 a.m. for the end of Daylight Savings...I wonder where the blog will insert this photo?... (answer: it kept the correct order, although the time zone was set to PST)
Two Moon photos stitched
A long exposure (8 seconds) was required to obtain the dark orange areas in the umbra, but the penumbral and lit areas were overexposed. A short exposure (fraction of a second) was adequate for the lit portions of the moon, but the colorful umbra was lost. So how to photograph what the eye actually saw looking up? Stitch the two photos together! The result is a pretty close approximation to a phase well before totality.