A shadow on the moon

The moon, slowly being covered by Earth's shadow

I set up on the deck last night for an hour or so to get the lunar eclipse.

Full size (about 7MB)

The images in the panora­ma above were tak­en at 2‑minute inter­vals (with occa­sion­al adjust­ment to the cam­er­a’s aim). They’re all 250mm, f/5.6, and either 1/100s, ISO 100 (the cres­cents) or 1s, 200 ISO (the rud­dy disks).

Since I was already out there, and the sky was clear, I set up my 2nd cam­era, point­ing straight up, to get some star trails. (And satel­lite tracks aplen­ty, some irid­i­um flares, and maybe a very small mete­or or two.)

Star trails, as seen from my deck

This one’s made up of ~630 images, each 11mm, f/2.8, 5s. (I did­n’t check the ISO on these, but I’d guess it’s in the 100–400 range.)

Inter­est­ed in prints of my pho­tos? Let me know, and we can work some­thing out.

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