Thanks...

You can find it here:

cs.unm.edu/~kwiley/software/keithsImageStacker.html

But... And I quote "Keith's Image Stacker is an image processing program that is oriented primarily toward astrophotography."

Also, keep in mind that I used an equatorial mount to follow the Moon movement, without that, this software would have been no use ;-)

theres always solar eclipses right? and I thought lunar happens more frequent than that. not sure.

You can always look on the Internet, search for string "Lunar Eclipse", and you should find some listings of all the future one that are coming...

I am looking for Solar Eclipse since three years but those are rarely total from were we live. Most of the time it force you to travel. I am ready for a trip but cannot find one in the near future ;-)

P.S.: Solar eclipse are dangerous to look at directly, but you already know that ;-)

You are welcome... :-)

Hello Henry,

When you look at the Moon, the Earth turn on it's axis. You know that the Earth take 24 hours to make one turn (the day), so if you just put your camera on a tripod, the Moon will always move out of the frame because the camera and the tripod follow the Earth movement.

I used an equatorial mount. It's a special motorized head on a tripod for astronomy. First, I orient one axis right to the Polar star. Then I validate the scope alignment, usually by centering two stars into the eyepiece that the computer requested. Finally I ask the computer to point the Moon and the motor will compensate for the Earth rotation. This way, my scope will track and follow the Moon.

Then I putted my Canon EOS Rebel Digital right behind the scope with a special adapter, and I took one picture every five minutes.

At the end, I used the "Keiths Image Stacker" software to do the fine alignment of each picture of the Moon :-)

For the picture quality, keep in mind the scope I used ;-)

Regards,
Yves

Hi Grubhart,

I cannot read your blog, I can only read English or French language...

What are your blog about?

opps! yep, spanish is native language in peru :p sorry, mm well my blog is about my 2 sides,my Freak side: some hobbies, books and music; and my Geek side: my job (software engineer), some hobbies too, astronomy, linux and some books ^^ and your movie about eclipse lunar is awesome!!! great quality!!! , very beatifull and good job!

sorry about my english... i know, is bad very bad... but i need practice, maybe i begin to write in 2 parts spanish part and english part i'm thinking.

kind regards
Grub.

I am also a fan of Linux :)

I use it for more then 10 years now... Finally, in order to use one software that I wanted, "Starry Night Pro Plus", I had the choice between a Mac version or a Windows version.

So I choose to buy a MacBook seeing that BSD was under the hood ;-)

You can add an embedded version of my movie as long as you respect both the movie author license, [ that's me ;-) ] and the Music author license.

The better way to do that is to copy both license links above and paste them with the embedded video into you html code...

Have a nice day Grub...

Yves

Well... Thank to you :-)

hey how can we download this video??

Click on the "Download Quicktime version" link under the statistics.

Please, respect all the licenses at the top :-)

Best regards,
Yves

sure....i am downloading it just to watch in hdtv
thanks for the tip....