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Lunar Eclipse HDR Timelapse Acquisition [Solar System] Acquisition techniques · Joe W · ... · 2 · 124 · 0

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Im preparing for the lunar eclipse coming up in a couple weeks and I want to get an HDR timelapse of the whole event. The equipment Ill be working with is a SWSA GTI, Askar 71F, and a Nikon Z5. My plan is to have my camera in manual mode and set the right exposure for the full bright moon, then take interval bracketed photos of -3 and -6 stops and let that run for the duration of the eclipse. Im hoping that the darker photos will still pick up details as the umbra progresses and during totality because I dont want to be messing with settings during the event.

Id love to get thoughts this plan so I dont overlook anything. Thanks for your input! Cant wait to see everyones pictures!
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If it is a dark eclipse, and there have been in the recent past, you will have to increase exposures (and also get the stars, BIG PLUS). Get APT to tether and control the camera (and possibly also the scope/mount) from a laptop.
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Joe W:
Im preparing for the lunar eclipse coming up in a couple weeks and I want to get an HDR timelapse of the whole event. The equipment Ill be working with is a SWSA GTI, Askar 71F, and a Nikon Z5. My plan is to have my camera in manual mode and set the right exposure for the full bright moon, then take interval bracketed photos of -3 and -6 stops and let that run for the duration of the eclipse. Im hoping that the darker photos will still pick up details as the umbra progresses and during totality because I dont want to be messing with settings during the event.

Id love to get thoughts this plan so I dont overlook anything. Thanks for your input! Cant wait to see everyone’s pictures!

I did something similar for the Moon/Mars occultation several weeks ago, with decent results.
I think -6 might be too aggressive, but you could probably trial this a couple days before the full moon?
You could also add more brackets (I assume the Z5 can do this), such as -2, -4, -6.
For the occultation, I did a three exposure bracket adding 1 2/3 (overexposing to get Mars) but I ended up tossing the last exposure because it was too much.
https://www.astrobin.com/qof7gl/

Are you sure you want to underexpose? As the moon gets darker don’t you want to increase the exposure?
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