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.
mikehaseler:
Got woke up at 4am ... great to see your photos.
September 28, 2015, 12:36 amMercury:
"Sort of apropos to this blog, the local coyotes went absolutely apesh*t right at the peak of the eclipse. Howling from every direction."
September 28, 2015, 11:40 amNow that is cool.
james:
Nice pictures.
September 28, 2015, 2:38 pmInterestingly, 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.