The Eclipse Night

This was the first total eclipse I saw in my life. It was pretty hopeless before midnight, because of the overcast sky. Please don’t tell me I had to wait until 2007 for the next total eclipse!! (we couldn’t see all 2006 eclipse in Europe). So, from 2:15am onwards (when the moon was start moving into Earth’s shadow) I was sitting in front of my PC, mourning the English weather. At 3am, looked out from my window, towards southwest where the moon was hanging. I SAW IT!!! I could see it within the broken clouds from time to time, it was lovely!! In my view, it looked mysterious and scary, but to be honest it just looked reddish. I brought all my camera equipment, started to capture so-called “blood moon”. Over the course of 2 hours, clouds and haze threatened to spoil the event, and I kept asking myself how much exposure I needed. My film camera sucks!! Without a light meter what I could do was taking a lot of frames, and I discovered later that the eclipse moon was much darker than a full moon, 1 second of exposure was a minimum, and a total of 20 frames were wasted. Nevertheless, I managed to take some long exposures. I hope they would be okay when they return from lab.

Photo by Bob Colwell

Night before eclipse

This is my second blog post, the first was a test post. In the meantime, still customizing the blog's look. On the side bar, there are RSS news feeds from Yahoo. It's created by me because I rely heavily on feeds now. As far as I know there is no RSS news feeds in Hong Kong. Don't bother if you couldn't see them properly (they are chinese words). Drop me any comments if you have any ideas!

Remember there's lunar eclipse on thursday morning.