Total Lunar Eclipse 9. November  2003

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Date: 09. November 2003
Time UT: 01:17:45 and 01:18:33
Location: Langhus, Norway. 
Altitude: Approx. 115m above sea level.
Latitude: 59°45'14"N
Longitude: 10°50'38"E
Seeing: 3/10
Transmission: 4/10
Temperature: -2
Camera: Canon EOS D60
Settings: ISO 200
Lens: Vixen R200SS w/Coma corrector (800mm @f4)
Filter: None
Exposure: 1 second for the Moon and 8 seconds for the background shot.
Guiding: None
Digital enhancements: Digital development, unsharp mask and contrast adjustment. The short exposure of the Moon was placed onto the starfield from the longer exposure using one of the brighter stars as reference to achieve correct positioning. The final results makes a good resemblems of how the eclipse appeared visually!
Notes: The images show stars down to about mag. 12.

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Updated 20. November 2003