Blood on the Moon
We pretty much had a full lunar eclipse tonight with clear skies. Of course my Nikon with the tripod and the 300mm lens had to have a dead batter, so I used the Canon Sx260 I had such good luck with at concerts. The results are grainy but pretty good for a pocket camera. This is about 5 minutes after the peak. No tripod, just sitting on top of my trash can in the driveway.
Here it was a bit before the peak
Modern pocket cameras use some sort of multi-shot HDR process to take low light photos. My Sony RX100-III does even better at night but does not have the zoom to do justice to the moon. It s a better camera, and I still intend to share pictures from my trip to Europe but just have not gotten around to it, but here is what the Sony saw:
Sort of apropos to this blog, the local coyotes went absolutely apesh*t right at the peak of the eclipse. Howling from every direction.
Got woke up at 4am ... great to see your photos.
"Sort of apropos to this blog, the local coyotes went absolutely apesh*t right at the peak of the eclipse. Howling from every direction."
Now that is cool.
Nice pictures.
Interestingly, yours show the last light at about four o'clock (moon seen as a dial)
Here the occlusion started at about 11 o'clock (dial, not time) and last lit part of the moon was at 6 o'clock.
First relit part of the moon was at about 9 o'clock.
So some odd relative movements of the three celestial bodies that make the transit of the shadow curved.