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Time lapse video of Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse on December 21, 2010 from 1:10 AM EST (6:10 GMT) to 5:03 AM EST (10:03 GMT) from Gainesville Florida. The music is Claude Debussy's Nocturnes: Sirènes.
A stabilized version of this video has been posted at: vimeo.com/18239117

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William Castleman 1 year ago

I appreciate the many notes of thanks and interest sent to me by email since I posted the video on December 21, 2010. I am responding to the many emails that I received requesting information on how the video was made.
I used a 4 inch telescope (Takahashi TSA-102 with TOA-35 field flattener) on an equatorial mount (Losmandy GM-8) that was polar aligned and following the Moon at a lunar tracking rate. Photographs were taken every 20 seconds with a dslr camera (Canon EOS-40D) using EOS Utility software at ISO 100 or ISO 200 in aperture priority mode with variable exposure compensation. Spot metering was used. The tracking was manually corrected every 20 to 30 minutes to keep the Moon centered in the field. Photos were assembled in Quicktime Pro software to make the time lapse video. A software program (Sony Vegas Pro 9) merged the video, music and text. The periodic large field shifts (jerky motion) in the video are due to the manual tracking corrections.
Seema Raniga 1 year ago

yes William I also feel that you have done a phenomenal job in taking this video for all of us who missed it.....lovely. My kids loved it!!!! Seema
HDtimelapse.net 1 month ago

Nicely done!
Tom Scott 1 month ago

Watch California Daylight | Time Lapse on Vimeo! vimeo.com/user7499655/california-daylight-time-lapse
jim vaca 1 year ago

music??
Wendy Darling 1 year ago

I'd like to know the answer to this too I love the music!
Kris Shelton 1 year ago

in the discription. Music is Claude Debussy Nocturnes: Sirènes
BACbKA 1 year ago

very nice
antonio 1 year ago

Great, splendid, congratulations
Exciting style 1 year ago

wonderful..great work
Bret Gerding 1 year ago

Great job! I shot one as well, but a wide view of it since I don't have any tracking devices. Check it out!

vimeo.com/18071809
Benjamin Rex 1 year ago

Oh wow! This is phenomenal!

Good post!
Pete 1 year ago

Really nice, the jerky motion can be removed if you center the moon, because anyways the surrounding is black (yeah with a few stars).

Great work.
James Cummings 1 year ago

phenomenal effort, hats off to you sir! i was in position with my 7d and a 400mm lens with the 2 x converter but sadly a cloud messed up all plans!
Victoria Shirley Productions 1 year ago

This is amazing!
Kalvin Camp 1 year ago

absolutely brilliant.
luis 1 year ago

I couldn't see it yesterday!! THANKS dude!
cabezasunderground.com 1 year ago

Gracias ! tuve la oportunidad de verlo en persona, hermoso evento!
Gene Cost 1 year ago

Absolutely stunning! Thanks for sharing the technical details. I tried with a camcorder set on time lapse....failed miserably!
Felipe EL Bello 1 year ago

Great music, great great photography, thanks a lot, this video is awesome
Fleants 1 year ago

that was soo good im pissed
Art For The Folks 1 year ago

It was cloudy in Asheville, NC and we missed the lunar eclipse; thank you for making this and sharing.
~Colleen & Jonathan
Walt Troup 1 year ago

That's cool
Cary Conover 1 year ago

Loved this. I am really happy that you captured this for us.
Anthony Tran 1 year ago

nice to see someone did this right! beautiful! Anyway you can post a few pictures of the rig you used? :)
William Castleman 1 year ago

I only took a few stills of the setup during polar alignment with my family (with holiday lights added :^)
wlcastleman.com/astro/luneclip122110/index.htm
Drusilla 1 year ago

thank you
Anurag Dasgupta 1 year ago

absolutely stunning.
Anesidora's Box 1 year ago

Wow! It's a really beautiful, nice and amazing video! Thank you for sharing this!

-Greg.
LA 1 year ago

So very cool!
Antony Stanley-Clarke 1 year ago

Must have been quite a job adjusting the exposure times as it moved through totality. You made it look very seemless.
Wonderful!
César Abarquero San José 1 year ago

Thank you, William, for sharing such great work with us.
I'm a Primary School teacher in Spain and I definitely will use it.

Congratulations.
francoe 1 year ago

A pleasure.
Dacia Weese 1 year ago

We live in Southern Utah, and eight solid days of cloud cover made it impossible for us to view the eclipse. My boys and I thank you for providing us an awesome video!!! Now we don't feel as if we missed anything.
music scoring 1 year ago

All I saw (luckily!) was a 10 minute glimpse just before emergence from totality. The skies were completely cloudy before and after (Michigan, darn it). Now I fully understand how the snapshot I saw fit into the big picture. Thank you sir for your incredible work and for sharing it with us all!!!
jack wells 1 year ago

so so glad you captured this, thank you.
Michael Haydon 1 year ago

Awesome and apocalyptic. Excellent.
TucandO 1 year ago

Omg... Very Awesome...!
Chris Giordano 1 year ago

What a magical experience! Great music selection as well.
Tom Ward 1 year ago

Sadly, clouds in New York state prevented my son and me from seeing the eclipse. What a great job of preparation and post production you did. You caught a few stars in your shots, and one can see the difference between the lunar and star tracking rates. This was a joy to watch. Thanks, man.
Picas73 1 year ago

Thank you very much for making it possible to see this.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ;)
rick92 1 year ago

i saw the very red moon at 2:30 =D
Gikkingen 1 year ago

Flawless.
Travis Dimick 1 year ago

The footage of this lunar eclipse was amazing!...including the slight reddish cast at times giving a creepy mysteriousness to the lunar event! Awesome prep and work on how you captured this time-lapse very professionally.
hardtop 1 year ago

This video is aowsome i love it , thanks
Robert Malcolm 1 year ago

We were clouded over too (UK). Thanks for bringing us a re-run :)
Robert Brown 1 year ago

My wife and I saw a beautiful view of the eclipse but alas I had no equipment appropriate to capture the stunning view. I was thrilled to find your video so that I could share the event with friends and family. Thank you for taking the time to capture this amazing eclipse and for sharing it.
Navydad 1 year ago

well done!!! We too were clouded over in the cascade mountain range. Thanks so much for the veiw.
paul Harris 1 year ago

Incredible video William... I loved it! I work in Vegas 9, and would offer that you can make adjustments for the position changes using zoom pan crop. You probably already know that. It took me three evenings to figure how that worked, but I use it in nearly every video I make now. Exposure changes can be offset as well using video FX brightness and contrast, or color adjustments. You're probably of chasing new horizons and vistas to capture and share, but if you revisit this in vegas you'll be pleased with the final results... This is one of the most spectacular videos I ever seen, and thanks for sharing it with all of us!
Kevin Morrissey 1 year ago

did you have to turn the contrast up in post production or did you get the picture doing all in camera work. Any ways this proabably better then watching this in a video then staring for 10 hours at the moon lol
Philip Han 1 year ago

This was on my Birthday ! ! !
Leonor 1 year ago

Wonderful!!
Jonathan Crider 1 year ago

beautiful! thank you so much! it was cloudy, unfortunately, in my area. as such i was unable to view this in person.

so thanks again! very nice work
Timucin Ozcelik 1 year ago

Watching the shadow of our planet cross over a huge surface of the moon is really awesome. Makes you feel really small.
Xavier Burgin 1 year ago

This is great. Where I live it was far too cloudy to do anything of the such
Paul Hamilton 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing this with the world!!!
Kathleen M. Keith 1 year ago

Thank you so much for doing this and sharing it with us all! And, thanks for giving us the set-up and the pix of your family with the time lapse images! Great work!
Gerry Umbach 1 year ago

I'm glad to be able to see this, William. I live in Northern Manitoba[8 min. south of 57th], sky was overcast. Thanks ever so much!
Mike d. Dalgleish 1 year ago

I was just up and eating breakfast when this was going on. The only cloud in the sky here happened to cover the whole event.
Superb!
William Castleman 1 year ago

Thank you to all who provided emails and comments to this original video. I have posted a stabilized version of the video to remove the jerky camera movements at: vimeo.com/18239117
Edith Valle 11 months ago

great!
funguzriotdub 11 months ago

ooo incredible, I also observe this eclipse in colombia but here is wonderful
great job!
Claudio A.G.Monteiro Filho, M.D. 10 months ago

wow, fantastic stuff...
Samir Douaihy 9 months ago

I Just Love It !
Victoria Tekhtilova 8 months ago

I adore this, amazing lighting.......
I feel the eternity of the moment, wonderful light of hope ...
ken osborn 8 months ago

Outstanding! And a good selection for the musical score.
Diego D'Orazio 7 months ago

congratulations! this is the best moon video I've ever seen!
Jan Curtis 6 months ago

ditto the last commentor