>> Tonight's total lunar eclipse as seen from my back yard - >> 4 stage sequence. >> >> http://others.servebeer.com/misc/eclipsesequence.jpg > > 4th image, totality, looks much redder in your photograph > than what I was seeing with naked eye & binoculars (from > southern California, US west coast) -- looked much browner, > either L=1 or L=2 on the Danjon scale. Yes - but, while the camera image can indeed be made to look whatever shade of red one wishes, it did in fact look much redder through the SLR eyepiece than when viewed with naked eye. My lens is effectively a 1500mm (500mm mirror lens x 2X teleconverter x 1.5X camera crop factor.) Compared to naked eye that's about 1500/50 = 30X and binoculars were probably 7X - 12X range? I would have thought that binoculars and lens would have had similar images. The totality image was a 3 second exposure - I'm not sure how or if that would affect the relative colouration in this case but sometimes strange second order effects do creep in. > Very pleasant to sit out in the backyard, read email, and > look at the eclipse just by glancing up. :-) Russell -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist