Lunar Eclipse 03/03/07 - Maarten de Vries

Two photo's take afocally through my StarTravel 102 short tube refractor. The left image was taking through a 25mm eyepiece at 1/125 second F8.0. This was the moon at approximately 10pm with the shadow of the earth covering almost half of the moon. The image on the right was taken using a 32mm eyepiece at 4 seconds f3.6 when the moon was nearly fully eclipsed. The camera I used was a Minolta Dimage S414 with 4M pixels. I don't have a bracket for afocal photography, so I had to perch the camera on a separate tripod, which didn't work well. Manual focusing turned out to practically impossible this way, so I wasn't able to take any further photographs. Maarten