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I hope you’re all enjoying Christmas eve with your families instead of lurking online and reading my nags.

Just checking in before heading out to do exactly that.

Merry Christmas to you all and may Santa’s bag be full of B&H gift cards for everyone!

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No worries! Just didn’t want it to waste too many votes.

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Elsinore, might wanna check the Scarlet R’s when you get a chance. I know that pic has made the R list before fairly recently.

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And yes, orionid has been my slave for about a week now. Moreso than he is normally, I mean. I think he likes it though.

Uh, rav, you’re not down with the flu, too, are you? I mean, that comment’s been sitting there all day… 😆

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Would be great if the OBO thing was implemented! I still have 2 contests that need to be fixed and hate to bug people about it.

Ah, well that explains the discrepancy between my counts & FSM in vote totals for you that I noticed recently.

I should have them all attributed correctly, I just need to work on the display side of things. Unfortunately, I’m in the middle of a project that isn’t allowing me too much free time at the moment. Hopefully, soon…

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Oh, and here’s how I do it:

http://www.schneeworld.com/roller/schnee/entry/farktography_statistics_manager

Ah, it was the star anise that I was missing! I knew something wasn’t quite right. 🙂

For those wondering what brought schnee into this thread, seeing his entry in this week’s contest spurred me to PM him and let him know my intentions.

So, I just want to publically say thanks to schnee for being so cool about it. Also, I did invite him to poke his head in here a little more often so that I could have another ally on the techie side. 🙂

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Yeah I hear you on being sick. I have the flu, a double ear infection and a sinus infection that I’ve been battling for almost 2 weeks now. It sucks and the doctor says I probably won’t be better until Christmas or later.

Bah! Evidently it’s not bad enough to affect your entries! Your Joy To The World could literally be a Christmas card.

Seriously though, best wishes for a speedy recovery (and you, too, clouddancer). I hope you’re at least making orionid wait on you hand and foot. 🙂

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Ah, that makes sense. I’ll have to give try it some other time and see what comes out.

And thanks!

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Thank you. I was willing to give the benefit of doubt as a possible English-as-a-second-language speaker, but when your recent direct query went unanswered, I think it became obvious. It was getting really tedious to come to the site and find tons of “new” comments all made by this person to years-old threads and then have to visit each one to clear the new comment indicators.

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Thanks, Choc-Ful-A!

And nice shot, NBD. I’ve got the 30D, so no live view for me. What did you do to get that level of detail? The difference between 300mm and 280mm isn’t that much, is it? While you can make out the maria in my shots, there’s no crater detail. I guess it could also be the haze – did you have clear/dry skies?

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Curious, my eyes aren’t good enough to do much manual focusing (don’t they make some kind of a grid that supposed to help with that?), so the way I did it was to auto-focus while the moon was bright and then switch the lens to manual to retain that focus setting for the remaining shots. Looking at the gauge on the lens, it looked like it was on the infinity mark, but it’s hard to tell exactly how on the mark it is from that gauge.

The other thing I did that appeared to help (based solely on the one other time I’ve photographed an eclipse) was to use mirror lockup. And of course I shot in RAW which gives you a lot more leeway in final exposure in case you’re off just a bit.

Also, my bad – the exposure during totality should’ve read F4 @ 4 secs and not 1/4. The other two exposures are correct.

If I can find the right horizon, it would make a splendid picture.

I agree. That was the only “problem” (well, that and the weather) with this eclipse – it was so high in the sky there wasn’t really any good way to get any kind of ground reference in the shot. The last eclipse in Aug ’07 ended close to moonset out here, so you could catch it closer to the horizon, like in this entry from All Night Long.

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There’s another one Dec 10th next year, at least in the western states. 😀

Did you change the ISO or exposure at all? You should submit those somewhere. It’s an excellent collage.

I didn’t know that. I thought the April 2014 event was the next. It’s possible I ignored it since it wasn’t applicable to me.

I kept the ISO at 100, but the exposures vary from F9 @ 1/80 (the mostly full start of the collage) to F4 @ 1/4 (edited: that should be 4 secs, not 1/4) during totality and back to F9 @ 1/15 at the end.

And thanks very much! I’m not sure where I’d submit them, though.

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CISS, you got some lovely shots

Thanks, rav!

although it was clear here at 10:00 i had to get up at 5:00 and passed. seeing these makes me wish i’d stayed up.

That was a consideration for me, too. I went to bed about 4:30 and got up at 8;30 to see if I had a last-minute conference call scheduled for 9 like I have the past couple of days. Fortunately not, so I went back for another couple of hours sleep. 🙂

I pondered getting up to shoot the moon. It was twenty one degrees with twenty five mile an hour winds off the river. The bed was warm. I think I made the proper choice.

I don’t blame you, those were my exact thoughts for the Geminids. But, if the world comes to an end in 2012 and you miss the 2014 eclipse, don’t come cryin’ to me… 🙂

After the last one, I swore that for the next one I’d take carefully timed shots to get a more defined timelapse. But, my oldest is home from college and he and I and my youngest went out, so there was more socializing than serious photography and I can’t say I regret it.

So, here’s a composite of my shots at roughly 10-minute intervals starting about 12:45am CST and running through 3:25am. I didn’t stay for the whole thing as it was really starting to get cold and wet. Click on the pic to view in full-res size.

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olavf, looks good, I wouldn’t mind seeing a full-res crop.

Clouds didn’t turn out to be quite as bad as initially forecast, mostly just low-lying haze, but the humidity was off the charts. Extremely dense fog and condensation, so not exactly ideal shooting conditions. rav, hope you got a little less atmospheric moisture out there. The haze really shows up in the totality shots.

Here are a few of my best (200mm + 1.4x TE, so 280mm effective, 100ISO, exposure times vary):

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That sounds awesome, orionid. I’d like to have seen that (not as much as you’d like to have taken it, I’m sure). Save it for 2014, I guess…

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