Hello All
Well with the advent of the Web am now able to share my long lost video that I made back 1997 with you all.
I remembered recently that I had this Eclipse video footage laying around and thought I'd better get it transfered soon before it got to bad to view. Well it's almost 10 years to the day now and I just got it loaded onto YouTube.
Back in early 1997 I started preparing for this Lunar eclipse, I started to video the full Moon with my full size RCA camcorder attached to my Meade 10" LX-200 telescope like a month in advance.
Then once I had recorded the image of the full moon I could go back home and play with centering the moon image on my monitor screen. I outlined the moon with white electrical tape to give me a center mark so that way when the camcorder would begin recording the moon, it would always be centered in the frame,no wobble!. Because this was going to be a four hour event compressed into a eight minute film used a time lapse feature on the camcorder it had to be right! No second chances.
Well wouldn't you know it! When the time came for the eclipse I came down with a stomach bug that almost keep me from producing this film, so glad I didn't cave. Because if I my say so my self. It's pretty cool!!!
The other hard part was matching a piece of music that would have the same play time as the video. Well I looked and looked and looked and then finally found a cd called Holst the Planets and the fist piece call (Mars, the bringer of War) which fit perfect to the video
Anyway, I hope you all enjoy my Lunar Eclipse video from 10 year ago.
So enjoy it and view it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0OIPLiRb4E
Sincerely, Arthur Stratton
Well with the advent of the Web am now able to share my long lost video that I made back 1997 with you all.
I remembered recently that I had this Eclipse video footage laying around and thought I'd better get it transfered soon before it got to bad to view. Well it's almost 10 years to the day now and I just got it loaded onto YouTube.
Back in early 1997 I started preparing for this Lunar eclipse, I started to video the full Moon with my full size RCA camcorder attached to my Meade 10" LX-200 telescope like a month in advance.
Then once I had recorded the image of the full moon I could go back home and play with centering the moon image on my monitor screen. I outlined the moon with white electrical tape to give me a center mark so that way when the camcorder would begin recording the moon, it would always be centered in the frame,no wobble!. Because this was going to be a four hour event compressed into a eight minute film used a time lapse feature on the camcorder it had to be right! No second chances.
Well wouldn't you know it! When the time came for the eclipse I came down with a stomach bug that almost keep me from producing this film, so glad I didn't cave. Because if I my say so my self. It's pretty cool!!!
The other hard part was matching a piece of music that would have the same play time as the video. Well I looked and looked and looked and then finally found a cd called Holst the Planets and the fist piece call (Mars, the bringer of War) which fit perfect to the video
Anyway, I hope you all enjoy my Lunar Eclipse video from 10 year ago.
So enjoy it and view it at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0OIPLiRb4E
Sincerely, Arthur Stratton
