Lunar eclipse reminder

[Torsten Wagner]

Don't forget today lunar eclipse...
Get your cameras ready... the beer cold and get some nice spot on a
park bench to enjoy the show. (This is a rather long show, so don't
worry to be to late!!!)
If you are not in photography you might instead take your wife, hubby,
girlfriend, boyfriend, kids, cat, dog, or pick-and-place machine with
you. A sort of reddish full moon might be just nice to watch....

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06/120601-partial-lunar-eclipse-supermoon-sun-earth-space-science/

Enjoy

Totti

[Mikele]

all ready (planned so I can be out of work at 19.00 max.) ... but the sky, cloudy as of the last couple of hrs...
finger crossed.

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[Torsten Wagner]

If its too cloudy... take more beer. Doesn't help against the clouds
but keeps your mood at a high level ;)

[Mikele]

ajhajhajhajhajajajhahahahah
very good adVice!
:)

[Matt]

Hmm... More beer, less eclipse..

[MRE]

Fnark.
I had a phone reminder set up and everything.
Unfortunately had a splitting headache most of the evening and was
knocked out in bed.

[Torsten Wagner]

MRE you got it wrong...  you should have beer DURING the lunar ellipse NOT before!  Hope you are fine by tomorrow...

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV]

Even in Niigata there was too much cloud... 31 floors were not enough
to get above the cloud line :-|

On the other news: Venus passing in front of the Sun...
<click!>
Zzzz....

Kalin.

[fakufaku]

I forgot my glasses today...:(

But it seems too cloudy to see anything anyway...

[Mikele]

is tomorrow

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:11 AM, fakufaku <faku...@gmail.com> wrote:

I forgot my glasses today...:(

But it seems too cloudy to see anything anyway...

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[mikele]

Tokyo

07:10 (7:10 a.m.), June 6

13:47 (1:47 p.m.), June 6

[fakufaku]

OHO!

[Mikele]

finger crossed, I just got in the same lens I used for the eclipse... filter ready, glasses too

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[Torsten Wagner]

Did your cornea heal enough to give it a second try ;)
ahhh forgot two eyes... yeahhh this makes two try...
Sky over Sendai was cloudy but partially opened... check google+ for some first results

[Torsten Wagner]

Clouds clouds so many f*cking clouds.....

[Mikele]

it lasts until 13.00....  I still have hopes to get a view...

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Mikele <him...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> it lasts until 13.00....  I still have hopes to get a view...
>

I don't... http://tenki.jp/rader/pref-16.html?rainmesh=1

Kalin.

[Mikele]

they are always wrong.

[Torsten Wagner]

How is the weather in Tokyo?
I got a few shots in the morning where the sun sneaked out from the
otherwise totally covered sky. But well as for the eclipse the need of
two filters + (this time) a 2x extender does not really improve the
image quality. I wasn't able to control the shoots since you can't see
anything on an LCD of a camera pointing to the sun. I made a dozen or
more shoots and went in the house to see the results... I got the Sun,
the Venus and a lot of speckles the size of the Venus....
...well you get those speckles if your camera assistant is a three
year old... grrr... yeah daddy loves you for this personal touch of
his pictures!

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Torsten Wagner <torsten...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How is the weather in Tokyo?

Totally bad, was raining in the morning, now it tries to clear (too late!)...

> I got a few shots in the morning where the sun sneaked out from the
> otherwise totally covered sky.

:-)

> But well as for the eclipse the need of
> two filters + (this time) a 2x extender does not really improve the
> image quality. I wasn't able to control the shoots since you can't see
> anything on an LCD of a camera pointing to the sun.
>

Use an old school black velvet to cover camera and head... I used a jacket.

> I made a dozen or
> more shoots and went in the house to see the results... I got the Sun,
> the Venus and a lot of speckles the size of the Venus....
> ...well you get those speckles if your camera assistant is a three
> year old... grrr... yeah daddy loves you for this personal touch of
> his pictures!
>

LoL, I spent some time cleaning my lenses this morning, run out of
lens paper and ended up ordering all types of lens paper from
Yodobashi. Will do a review soon!

Cheers,
Kalin.

[Mikele]

yeah... nothing good here neither, but glad you got to see it!

Kalin, I was watching some video tutorial on how to clean lenses, they were saying microfiber cloths are best (1 wet and one to dry) and better than paper...
I always used paper for lens and microfiber for monitors...
does it really matter?

Kalin.