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The sky was overcast most of the day, but after sunset it thinned out enough to catch intermittent views of the 96.2% partial lunar eclipse up through its midpoint and a bit beyond before darker clouds moved in and cut it short. Constantly varying cloud densities made exposure-setting guesswork, being off by as much as 10 stops from standard lunar-eclipse exposure settings--I'm surprised it turned out as well as it did.
Image data:
#1: timelapse composite, one frame every 4 minutes
#2: magnified views of #1 with descriptions
#3: a bracketed 7-shot exposure of the Moon near mid-eclipse
Astro data:
Aug 27, 2026 pm MDT
moonrise: 8:01
sunset: 8:09
partial eclipse begins: 8:33
partial mid-eclipse: 10:13 shadow extent: 96.2%
partial eclipse ends: 11:52
Aug 28, 2026 am MDT
sunrise: 7:01
moonset: 7:29
Photo data:
Panasonic GX8, Lumix 12-35mm lens @ 13mm, tripod
timelapse composite
... one frame every 4 minutes, running from 9:05-11:37pm MDT
... 40 frames x (f/4, 1/50 -> 5 sec, ISO 400) +
..... 2 extra frames to composite in the house and clouds
... stacking in startrails.exe, editing in Paint Shop Pro 2023
Panasonic G9, Lumix 100-300mm lens @ 300mm, tripod
near mid-eclipse: 10:24pm MDT
... (f/4, 1/4 sec +/- 3 EV, ISO 3200)
date: Aug 27, 2026 evening
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