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Phenomenal Eclipse of the Full Moon Jun 16, 2011 From Okinawa, Japan
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| phenomenal total eclipse 16th jun 2011 |
For me, it all started at 7:15PM last night, the 15th of June. Ryukyu Rusty sent me an instant message, or whatever you call those emails that come through your cell phone. It said "Lunar Eclipse at 0300". I replied, he could come by the house and get my 500mm lens. No way, was I going to be awake at 3AM.
Well, he was so excited about the full moon, he never came by and went with that girl of his to shoot reflections of the full moon over the ocean, somewhere. Hope he got some.
At 2:30AM, I was awakened. Groan. "Did you see the moon, I asked her"? "Yes, she says. It isn't red". Groan, gripe, get coffee, put lens in camera, mount everything on a tripod and stumble up the stairs to the roof of the house to see what the moon looked like and there it was. It didn't look any different than any other full moon I ever saw. Why am I doing this after only getting 3 hours sleep? Groan, again.
After shooting about 50 frames of the moon at different camera settings, I called it a night. I was starting to think Huffington and Rusty were full of crap. Maybe there was some confusion about the date between when the eclipse takes place over Japan vice the USA.
So, I groaned some more, took the big lens off the camera and put all my toys away. Wide awake, full of mosquito bites and coffee, I decided I might as well take the SD card out of the camera and go to my office, uptown, to download and see how my moon shots turned out.
It's a few blocks walk to get to my office. I stop at a machine close to the place and grab a few iced coffees to drink while the PCs are doing whatever they do warming up everyday.
Well, just as I turn the last corner, to get to my hangout, the moon appeared. read more
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