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Lyrid Meteor Shower
Find out how I captured what I consider my luckiest photo ever as well as a moving time lapse of the Lyrid Meteor Shower.
Super Blue Blood Moon Photography Outing
On January 31, 2018, Nebraska had the chance to see the Super Blue Blood Moon just before dawn. This title breaks down like this
- Super Moon: The full moon is near its closest point to the Earth along its orbit making it a percent or so larger.
- Blood Moon: The moon will be in a full lunar eclipse causing the moon to have a reddish hue.
- Blue Moon: This is the 2nd full moon in 1 Calendar Month.
I set out to try to record this event, something that hasn't been seen in North America in over 150 years. Unfortunately, the clouds played havoc on my plans, but I was able to get some shots as you'll see in the video below.
2017 Solar Eclipse
It looked like it was going to be cloudy in my neck of the woods near Lincoln so I went out west 90 miles to around Grand Island, Nebraska and had fairly clear skies the whole time. I had been trying to find #12 welders glass for a week, but everything was sold out (I waited too long), but the morning of, I went and found a welding shop and they had #11, so I snatched it up. The crazy thing is, his credit card machine was down so thank goodness I had cash.
Almost everything from that point worked flawlessly. There were a few hiccups with my focusing, but they weren't too bad. The only thing that didn't go as planned was the live video of the sky darkening. The camera stopped after 12 minutes for whatever reason, but it was just after the sky got dark so at least we saw that.
Overall, I couldn't be happier with how this video turned out. I think the totality video was worth it all by itself. Everything else was just bonus.
Taken with Nikon A900
Combination of images taken with homemade lens filter and Canon 70D (color corrected)
Screen shot from Sony FDR-AX53 4K video.