Last night was exciting, I got to stay up to watch the eclipse of the moon that was due. It was really cloudy for most of the evening but it cleared enough for us to see the eclipse.
AnnMarie was busy with her camera, taking moon pictures, so I decided to have a go too. I fetched the lightest tripod and my Canon compact digital camera. I had to try out different settings but after a while I took some pictures which AnnMarie has now processed for me.
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There are 10 x 4 second pictures stacked together to make the picture above. To the left, there’s Saturn, the ringed planet and above the moon there’s Regulus. If you read Linda Chapman’s Stardust Fairy books, you’ll know just how special Regulus is.
We have a few years to wait until the next eclipse; wow that was exciting.