Total Lunar Eclipse 28 September 2015 with Olympus OMD EM1 from bloodmoon Watch Video
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Description: Here's a quick video I filmed just before totality of the Lunar Eclipse this morning. I was using my Olympus OMD EM1 mounted on my Televue Genesis SDF telescope at prime focus. It's a 540mm f5.4 instrument, so with the field reduction on the Olympus, was working at 1080mm. Then the video made a slight additional crop. The two things most apparent in this clip are the motion of the Moon (or any celestial object) at high magnification due to the rotation of the Earth (yes, I was using a lowly trip
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