Lunar eclipse seen from my balcony's by mortimer

Thun - Switzerland I tried to get a shot of the lunar eclipse on 4-March-07 but couldn't manage better... :-( this shot was taken on blub mode. It's shaky or moving moon

Uploaded: Mar, 05 2007 | Taken: Mar, 04 2007| Viewed: 43 times  | 4 votes Camera: NIKON CORPORATION | Model: NIKON D70 | Exposure 409/10s | FLength: 200mm | SW: QuickTime 7.1.3

rangutan - Mar, 05 2007 12:03pm Martin good try! Surprised how fast the moon moves across a field of sight when looking through a fixed lens on a tripod? One needs motorised tripod tracking like offerred by "Celestron" or "Meade" andreas - Mar, 05 2007 01:03pm Great Shot!! The blur seems to be from moving the tripod as you stoped blub mode? At 40s exposure I don't think that the moon moves that wide with just a 200m lense. Did you try 30s with Selbstausl.? mortimer - Mar, 05 2007 02:03pm Yes I tried 30 and 15 sec both with selbstausl. but the result was more or less the same... I don't understand. I'm a bit dissapointed as I have other normal moon shots showing lot more details. mortimer - Mar, 05 2007 02:03pm Perhaps the motion ot the mirror also gave a little bit of disturbance. There are cameras that have a "Spiegelvorauslösung" mine has not, might also be a part of the problem. mistybleu - Mar, 05 2007 08:03pm Martin, excellent shot; when not really, but the fact that you were able to capture it at all is amazing. The colour is great. For once the weather in London was perfect to see the eclipse... mistybleu - Mar, 05 2007 08:03pm ...but I forgot my camera at home and couldn't capture it. Oh well, I should be able to see it again in fifty years or so...