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Post by Dragon Man on Apr 5, 2015 8:41:52 GMT
Hi all, Last night I did a broadcast of the 'Blood Moon' Full Lunar Eclipse. I had a huge crowd in the broadcast and among the many watching was a school in Tokyo (thanks Heinz). I managed to get the whole of the totality as I had lovely clear and still skies despite the forecast for cloud Interestingly, about 20 minutes after the Eclipse finished and I was packing up, a very heavy fog rolled in and obscured the whole sky! One of the thickest fogs I have seen in many years For the event I used a Mallincam Xtreme camera, an ED80 Refractor, a 0.58x Focal Reducer, a UV/IR filter, all on an EQ6 mount. Jack Huerkamp recorded about 37 minutes of my broadcast and posted it on You Tube so anyone that missed it can see it. Thanks Jack I did get a lot of Screen Grabs which I must post in here, but in the meantime here's the video of my broadcast that Jack recorded:
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Post by davy on Apr 5, 2015 10:16:17 GMT
yeah you had a full house for the broadcast well done ken.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2015 10:52:16 GMT
Very awesome brother
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Post by Dragon Man on Apr 5, 2015 14:50:31 GMT
Thanks Davy and Kenn. and g'day Kenn, welcome to the Forum mate. Now you're here join in the conversations
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2015 16:40:48 GMT
Hi Ken and All, I got setup for the eclipse event here in Hawaii and when it started, the skies were not cooperating at all. It even started to rain. So, I covered everything and went to NSN. There were several broadcasts, but I can open multiple windows, so I was watching them all including yours. Very good show! I kept an eye on the sky, and miraculously I got some clearing at about 70% coverage for a little over an hour. I used my new HD-SDI video cam that I got for $79 on eBay thanks to David in NM and my 50mm mini refractor. The new cam performed well, and there was a bit of CA, but I was happy with the view. Here's a capture I got near max coverage. Thanks, Ken for your show. It was a great alternative when I got clouded out. Don
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Post by Dragon Man on Apr 5, 2015 17:36:27 GMT
Thanks Don.There certainly was a lot of viewers. You did very well with your capture considering your circumstances
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Post by scopemobile on Apr 5, 2015 22:34:00 GMT
great broadcast ken, i came in on the guest button quarter way in to the eclipse, very skillfull ,controlling the machinery in real time while presiding over 5 or 6 humorous conversations crossing each other in real time. ps. the star that the mallincam was seeing close by on the lhs, could you see it in normal vision in the blackness of the eclipse ? john
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Post by Dragon Man on Apr 6, 2015 10:36:04 GMT
Hi John, and thanks for joining in on my Broadcast. Yes, the conversations are fun while trying to jiggle settings to please every viewers taste No, the stars that were visible near the Moon are not visible naked eye, but are in a telescope. They weren't visible naked eye during the eclipse either because they were too close to the Moon to differentiate them from the Moon, and too small. It would be like trying to see a speck of dust half a millimetre from a Pea at arms length. I tried to see the star naked eye but couldn't.
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Post by Dragon Man on Apr 6, 2015 11:36:29 GMT
I put together an animation of the Eclipse from Screen Grabs fom my Live broadcast
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