I shot this in early October but then between filling 200+ orders for eclipse glasses in four days and making a speed run to Midland, Texas to see the Annular Eclipse, I forgot all about it. 60 sixty second frames from my 11″ SCT at f/1.9 with an Antlia Triband RGB Ultra filter.
Saturday night was a mostly good night. Dry, no wind, not excessively cold yet. The Moon was brighter that I wanted but what are you going to do?
I decided on shooting the Helix Nebula though it was fairly close to the Moon. The image is made from 132 one minute subs shot with my 11″ SCT at f/1.9 with an NBZ filter. The filter blocked most of the moonlight.
While my “main” camera was shooting at 300mm to get a closeup, my other camera was shooting wide angle (18mm). You may have seen the video produced from the main camera. Here I set the camera on a tripod and shot one picture every five minutes.
This one was far easier to process than the video. Click the image for a larger view.
