Lunar eclipse April 2015

Lunar eclipse April 2015

I stayed up last night to catch the total lunar eclipse.  Here are some shots of that event, most taken with my Nikon D200, 300 mm f/4 AF-S plus 1.4 teleconverter:

2326 April 4 2015
2326 April 4 2015

Twenty minutes later:

2352 April 4 2015
2352 April 4 2015

Slowly it’s nibbled away:

0014  April 5 2015
0014 April 5 2015
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0034 April 5 2015

 

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0057 April 5 2015

 

and finally (well, probably a little later than the total eclipse to be exact):

0103 April 5 2015
0103 April 5 2015

That last one was taken with my D700.  I was struggling to focus, Live View wasn’t working very well and my eyesight isn’t up to fine focus on a dim subject.  But the colour is the main feature here.

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