Wednesday, February 20, 2008
So So weather for this evening's eclipse
If you live in Santa Barbara county... you will have fairly good chance of viewing this evening's lunar eclipse...as skies are forecast to be partly cloudy. But... the remainder of the southland (LA/Orange/San Diego/Riverside and San Bernardino counties) the skies will likely be mostly cloudy with isolated to scattered rain showers.
Times of the lunar eclipse...
Partial eclipse begins: 5:43pm/pst
Total eclipse begins: 7:01pm/pst
Total eclipse ends: 7:51pm/pst
Partial eclipse ends: 9:09pm/pst
A few tips if your interested in photographing the eclipse...
- Use a high speed film or an ISO setting of 400
- If your camera has a manual exposure mode, set the lens to its widest aperture (smallest numeric f/number) and use a range of exposures from 5 seconds to 40 seconds (i.e, 5, 10, 20 and 40 seconds). Exposures longer than this will start to trail or streak because of Earth's rotation on its axis.
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