Red Moon over Rockies
Taken by Alan Dyer on May 26, 2021 @
Rocky Mountain House, Alberta
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS Ra
Exposure Time: 13/10
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 400
Date Taken: 2021:05:26 21:15:01
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The total lunar eclipse of May 26, 2021, here in the late partial phase about 15 minutes before totality began, with a thin arc of the Full Moon at the top of the disk still in sunlight. The rest is in the red umbral shadow of the Earth. The same pinkish-red light is beginning to light the distant Rocky Mountains in the dawn twilight. A few stars of Scorpius are visible.
From my location the Moon disappeared into the brightening twilight sky as totality began — the fully eclipsed Moon was too faint to see, as this was a dark eclipse despite the short 15 minutes of totality, surprising, as I was expecting to be able to capture the fully eclipsed Moon in the morning sky. But not so. It was gone from view not longer after this, despite still being up and in clear sky.
I shot this from a location just south of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, chosen to be under clear skies at eclipse time, which proved to be the case. So despite this being a lunar eclipse widely seen over half the world, a chase was still required to see it! In this case, I drove to a site farther north and into a brighter sky at eclipse time, but with much better weather prospects than sites in Alberta to the south where the sky would have been a bit darker and closer to the mountains. But I was happy to get it!
This is a single 1.3-second exposure with the 200mm Canon L lens at f/8 and the red-sensitive (helping with the sunrise colours) Canon Ra at ISO 400, untracked on a tripod. I did blend in a short 1/6-second exposure for just the bright part of the Moon to tone down its brightness.
Photographer's website:
https://www.amazingsky.com
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