Eclipse: West Coast photos

[REP]

I took these tonight; on my way to take more.

[Lucinda]

1. Yay! Visibility rocks.

Cloudy here so I am relying on the internet(s)!
Nice shots :)

[xxqqqzme]

14. So have I - all the sites

I found - NASA overcast, spaceweather - Cocacola space center is lame. So far they all suck. The pictures here are the best I've seen all night.

[Lucinda]

15. Best place to live vicariously, evah!

Would have loved to sit outside and ponder...this is a good alternative. :)

[Jeanette in FL]

2. Wow, those are excellent

Great Shots.

[Wednesdays]

3. Wonderful photos!

Sending this to the Greatest Page...right now!

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

4. Here's one I took, edited of course

[Lucinda]

5. Love that!

Verrah nice. :)

[ProdigalJunkMail]

6. a couple from the east coast...

[Lucinda]

8. Beautiful!!

I had a great webcam shot till I blue screened. Ah well.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

10. took these on the back porch with my Nikon...then clouds!

ISO 100 ... f5.6 ... various shutter speeds ... 300mm focal lenght...

thanks...it was fun getting them before the clouds rolled in...

sP

[Lucinda]

13. I love those kinds of shots.

One second too late and nuttin.
I love shooting macro with my Nikon.
It's magic.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

17. tonight was a real challenge

because of the variable cloud cover...just when you set for one light you get another...it was fun though...now to bed...

Happy Solstice!

sP

[Lucinda]

18. And to you...sleep well!

[Alameda]

28. Fabulous! What camera, what lens?

It would have been nice to have been able to take shots here. It was amazing with the clouds. For a while the clouds cleared and you could see the stars with clouds framing the whole thing.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

33. just a Nikon D90 DSLR with a 300mm lens

the fun was playing with the f-stops, shutter speed and focal length. all of them were taken with ISO100 settings...thanks for the compliment on them. they were fun to get...

sP

[Alameda]

45. Nice setup....

I need to learn more about lenses....but for now it's hypothetical as it a little over my budget now.

[REP]

49. Mine were taken with a Canon XSi with a 250mm lens

I usually take photos of flowers and hummingbirds.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

51. excellent shots!

I love to get shots of wild life, as well. I got some recent beauties of a red-tail hawk outside our offices. Nothing as tight as these (I was shooting through glass)...

I am coming to photography late in life...but loving it!

Welcome to Winter!

sP

[stuntcat]

37. thank youuuu

We go to sleep so early, had to totally miss it. These are the first pics of it I've seen

[AtomicKitten]

7. Thanks for posting! SF is all clouds and fog.

[REP]

9. It's patchy here in Mountain View

[sakabatou]

11. Yeah, I know

We need a cloud break here.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

12. very nice! n/t

[sabrina 1]

16. Awesome! Too cloudy here to see the moon, so I went to

NASA'a live-stream, but couldn't see anything there either as they had cloudy skies.

A full moon, an total eclipse. Solstice and Meteor Shower (live on NASA's site right now and anyone who has clear skies might be able to see some meteors.

The last time there was a total eclipse of the moon on Solstice, Galileo was alive. Amazing!

Thank you so much for the photos ~

[suffragette]

19. We lucked out here with the clouds parting for a time

Feel very fortunate.

:hi:

[snagglepuss]

21. A meteor streaked through the sky near Orion just as the moon went into

full eclipse. The meteor was the same orange colour as the moon. It was breath-taking. What the photos don't capture is the moon's appearance as an orange pearl. The moon appears very much to be an orb rather than a disk. Its surreal. It is remarkable and thrilling to see.


Yay for the moon. Yay for the massive mysterious universe. Quite a show.

[kimi]

20. It is SO gorgeous, I can't believe it!

I tried to take pics, but it's so dark (who's have thunk that, at 3 AM, right?) but the moon is RED, and half covered right now. So freakin cool.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

22. A couple of shots from Santa Rosa

SR was mostly cloudy, but I managed to get a few.

[xchrom]

23. Thanks for all lovely photos! Nt

[AlabamaLibrul]

24. The Moon is melting

[malaise]

25. It's beautiful here

Rec

[bluesbassman]

26. Nice! Here's a couple from the East Bay.

[jaxx]

31. Beautiful getting to see the red color.

Great shots everyone. Thanks!

[OneGrassRoot]

32. Nice!!! :) n/t

[tigereye]

40. thanks so much! great photos!

It was totally clouded over here last night.

[Blue_In_AK]

27. From Alaska - the last shot before the fog rolled in.

[malaise]

30. Live coverage here

http://www.ustream.tv/spacevidcast

[myrna minx]

35. How beautiful. n/t

[housewolf]

29. Thank you for the great shots, everybody!

It's been solid cloud cover here in Portland, OR (as usual for this time of year!) so I haven't been able to see a darned thing all night.

There are some great shots here and all are well appreciated. Thanks for sharing with those of us who don't have a view.

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[kimi]

34. I tried to take pics

but eh. Maybe one came out.

However. I cherish the thought of going outside, with my kids, and watching this amazing light show. An experience that none of us will ever forget.

Maybe some things depend on the providence of others to deliver (i.e. photos), while other things depend on the actual sharing of the incident with those you love.

[myrna minx]

36. Thank you for this post.

:hi:

[Rhiannon12866]

38. Wow! Spectacular pix!

Thanks so much for sharing these with us! We saw a little of it here, even though it was somewhat cloudy... :hi:

[Dogmudgeon]

39. Excellent shots, all

From Bucks County, PA, directly north of Philadelphia: I went outside and looked at it a few times. Penumbral totality was easily visible but did not turn the Moon very orange. Umbral totality was deep red, but the Moon was extremely dim.

"Back in the day" (circa 1975) when I was a kid, I did some astrophotography with a borrowed Argus C-50, the camera of choice in those days, with Kodak's ASA 400 B/W film (Tri-X?). The stuff posted here absolutely blows them away. Thanks to everyone for posting!

--d!

[Lorien]

41. The entire eclipse, beginning to end, as was seen here in Florida:

http://www.vimeo.com/18046748

[Arctic Dave]

42. Simply awesome.

We were able to see the first half of the total eclipse but the clouds set in and it disappeared.

[bigwillq]

43. Awesome!

K and R

I couldn't see it from my window. It was too cold to go outside. It was cloudy, though, so not sure if I would've been able to see it anyway.

Great shots!
:) :hi:

[EFerrari]

44. So beautiful! My 79 yr old mom stayed up and went out to see

in this wet, cold weather.

She'll love these. :loveya:

[GreenStormCloud]

46. Cloudy all night here. And I worked all night at an outside job so I could have seen it.

Oh well. The sunrise was super. The sun underlit the clouds and turned them all flame red.

[InvisibleTouch]

47. Thanks for the pics, everyone!!

It was cloudy here in the Midwest, no chance to see it. So I have to live vicariously through the photos!

[pitohui]

48. wonderful cloudless eclipse in new orleans

i was not set up to take any photos myself but a photographer from the local newspaper did a fine job:

http://photos.nola.com/tpphotos/2010/12/winter_solstice_lunar_eclipse.html

the color was unbelievable, red orange at totality

i am sorry i don't know how to copy the photo over but it's worth clicking to see!

[roamer65]

50. I wanted to take my telescopes out....

but the visibility was crap due to clouds in the Midwest. Since I saw the February 2008 one, I skipped this one.

I can't wait until the August 21st, 2017 total SOLAR eclipse. I am not going to miss that one.

Very nice astrophotography, btw!