Month: May 2004

Pictures of the moon eclipse

I’ve uploaded pictures that I took during the full Moon eclipse yesterday. Nothing particularly interesting. As I’ve already mentioned, my 75-300mm lens is still in custom’s clearence office, so no details of the Moon for me. But at least something is visible on the full-sized pictures. I am to lazy to crop them though. :)

Total moon eclipse tonight

Total moon eclipse is currently in progress. Usually news like this come for people living in other places, but this time we got lucky.

I’ve found out about the eclipse too late to document the whole process, never-the-less I’ve made few pictures from the roof of our office. Too bad my 75-300mm lens is still in clearence office, so I had to use the 18-55mm kit lens, which is awful for such things. I think I will publish all pictures by tomorrow, since I am not planning on doing any post-processing at all.

Currently the moon is totally covered by the Earth’s shadow. It will stay like this for another hour or so.

There are a lot of articles and news reports on the web which cover the places and times of where and when the eclipse will be visible. Here is a link to a CNN report. And here is a Haaretz Today article, which describes the eclipse from the point of view of Israel – and that is very close to where I am. :)

Short downtime

I am currently working on physical relocation of my home server from one room into another, so there will be a short downtime. I’ll update this node as soon as everything will get back.

Update (14:05): Ok, most of the work has finished. gucho has been moved to the living room and it’s CD-ROM has been changed to DVD-ROM. I will be configuring DVD playback and sound now, but it should not cause any interruptions in the connectivity.

PhotoZone.de

Yet another interesting site about photography – PhotoZone.de. Despite the .de domain it’s mostly in English. There are a lot of articles about usual subjects – equipment, techniques, digital, etc. There is also a forum for those who’d like to stay and ask questions. Most stuff is basic, but it’s rather useful anyway.

If you don’t know where to start, go to Techniques section and see how easy it is to calculate “The Golden Mean”. There is a bit more to it than just sticking your finger in the middle of the frame. :)