Lunar Eclipse - What worked ... and what didn't.

As always with an event like this which you can't fully rehearse some things work well ... and others not so much:

1, Closeups with Lunar Eclipse Maestro

• Setup of the scope (SkyGuider, polar alignment...) worked perfectly
• Lunar Eclipse Maestro worked well, but somewhere during the maximum, it stopped taking images - luckily I caught this and restarted it.
• I wish Lunar Eclipse Maestro would have taken two images at once - one for the bright and one for the dark part of the moon. HDR compositions might have looked really great!
• For both this and the timelapse, having the Nikon's directly powered by a 12V battery was perfect (though the batter was pretty much flat at the end of the night powering the cameras, and the laptop).

2. Timelapse

• It didn't work as a timelapse at all - the moon was just a really, really bright spot - and then less bright. But there were no details of the moon or such.
• It gave me that awesome Milky Way image - I love that.
• Somehow my field of view calculations were all wrong. The moon only went through half of the image. I.e. I could have shot at 24mm focal length - maybe that would have made a difference.

3. Unistellar eVscope

• Setting the eVscope up was as always a breeze.
• One of the tablets didn't have the latest eVscope software and couldn't connect (we had really poor reception up there)
• The images had a strong pink taint:
  
  
  
  

  It was easy enough to process that out by adjusting the whitebalance. But for live observing we had live with a pink moon.
  
  

4. Manual Widescapes

• As always, these are some of my favorites. Just walking around, trying different angles, exposures, focal length...
• Our spot was almost too perfect! I didn't have any objects (trees or such) that I could put in the foreground.