Here are three stages of the lunar eclipse of 8th November 2022 as seen from Jondaryn in Queensland, Australia
The two partially eclipsed images are blends of five separate exposures : 1/80th sec, 1/20th sec, 1/5th sec / 0.8 sec and 3.2 sec taken using the Canon's automatic exposure bracketing function.
The fully eclipsed image is 8 seconds duration.
Each image sequence was taken manually every two minutes for four hours as I couldnt work out how to trigger the automatic bracketing using an intervalometer.
It would make for a great timelapse if I could ever be motivated to edit each set of photos, plus manually align the shots as I was not able to work out how to track the moon accurately in time for the event. (and due to the rarity of lunar eclipses its not like you can practice ! ) Even with good polar alignment and lunar tracking mode I always get a fair amount of movement.
I've heard that Metaguide and Firecapture can auto-guide on surface features, though no doubt there would have to be some manual adjustment at some stage due to the extreme brightness change. An alternate method someone suggested was to use a tiny guidescope like a ZWO 30F4 with an aperture mask on the front and use the entirely of the moon as a "guide star". Oh and I've tried PIPP and other software to previously align all the frames for the timelapse and I couldnt get them to work correctly for all stages of the eclipse. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
Well I have about 3 years to practice until the next one
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