Total Lunar Eclipse (The Colors On The Moon)

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Total Lunar Eclipse (The Colors on the Moon)
Taken by Heiko Ulbricht and Dirk Landrock on January 21, 2018 @ Radebeul, Saxony, Germany

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A great start into the day and into the new week offered the total lunar eclipse over Saxony and above the observatory in Radebeul. From time to time hindered high fog the view to the Moon. Temperature was -7°C. Wonderful the colors on the Moon: the red and the blue from the ozone layer in the atmosphere… Details: 14-inch Maksutov-Newton, Canon EOS 6D, ISO 400, 10s

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What was the white balance setting of the camera? I see the blue color in only some photos, not others. I suspect it results from cameras set to automatic white balance, and when a camera auto-white-balances itself on mostly orangish and reddish colors, part of the moon is shown as more bluish than it actually is.

Posted by donklipstein 2019-01-21 11:00:21

To see the turquoise effect is very individual, depending on local atmospheric conditions mostly, but also on lenses used for the photography (aperture, technical quality). Blue is very easily scattered so you cannot be able to see it everywhere (places with dust are worst). I personally had the eclipse 50 deg above the horizon with clear skies, 67 humidity and bit of dust of desert close by in Boa Vista and with no playing of WB or saturating colors, I was able to capture colors this way: http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=151076 (Canon 6D, MTO 1100/f10.5). This is also what I saw in 11x70 binoculars and the blue showed mostly close to the edge during the beginning and end. Generally, turquoise effect was truly noticeable this time, it was beautiful eclipse!

Posted by imaginer21 2019-01-22 06:03:56

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