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Pre-Lunar Eclipse practice run on 25th May 2021 with Lunar Corona

5/25/2021

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​Every time there’s an important astronomical event I always try and do a practice run before the night. This is to make sure where the object will be seen in the sky and also to try out all the equipment that I’ll be using.
 
The first thing I noticed was that the Moon was rising further to the southeast than I thought! That meant where I was going to set up the telescope was not suitable because of a large tree, so a new place by the pool was chosen.
 
I also wanted to see what constellation the Moon would be in during the eclipsed. I could see from where the Moon was tonight that tomorrow evening the red coloured eclipse Moon would be among the stars at the head of Scorpius.
 
I also needed to know what lens to use to capture a wide field image of the event and what camera settings would be best to use; this is why it’s always best to have a practice run before a special event.
 
So, I really learnt a lot tonight especially on the best place to set up the telescope and which camera settings to try and capture the eclipsed Moon tomorrow night :-)
 
I took this image below with my Canon 70D camera and a Sigma 10-20mm lens @ 10mm on a static camera tripod so I could capture a very wide field image. The exposure time was 25 seconds at f8 and ISO 400; I really like the lens flare that looks like a coloured comet :-)
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The second image below is when some high cloud came over the sky and produced a circular corona around the Moon with some coloured iridescence from the ice crystals in the surrounding clouds.
​I hope that doesn’t happen tomorrow night!
 
This image taken with Canon 70D and Tamron 18-400mm lens @60mm; the exposure time was 1 second at f5.6 and ISO100.
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