The sky conditions were not favourable here on the Gold Coast to view the lunar eclipse because of a large band of cloud on the eastern horizon. But to my surprise, not long after sunset I saw a pretty crescent eclipse Moon rising above the houses across our waterway…Yay!...We were going to see something after all : -))
I had already set up my Camera on a tripod in the hope the sky would clear (I’m always the eternal optimist) and this time I was rewarded!
But my hopes were dashed, when only after 5 minutes the partially eclipsed Moon vanished behind clouds and it stayed that way for at least an hour. By the time the eclipsed Moon was back in the sky it was at it’s full 97% coverage with that telltale orange red hue.
The sky conditions were very poor for taking images, but I did manage to capture a couple of pictures through the clouds, we were just so lucky to even have seen it at all : -)
This was not a full total eclipse of the Moon, as the Moon did not go fully into the earth’s shadow (Umbra) but it did have all the colours of a lunar eclipse, it was in reality a partial lunar eclipse.
My images were captured with a Canon 70D camera and a Tamron 18-400mm lens with a 2x teleconverter attached making a focal length 1280mm and the camera was on an ordinary camera tripod. The lunar eclipse photo had an exposure of 2 seconds and ISO 640, three images were captured and stacked in Registak6 a processed in PS CS4.
I had already set up my Camera on a tripod in the hope the sky would clear (I’m always the eternal optimist) and this time I was rewarded!
But my hopes were dashed, when only after 5 minutes the partially eclipsed Moon vanished behind clouds and it stayed that way for at least an hour. By the time the eclipsed Moon was back in the sky it was at it’s full 97% coverage with that telltale orange red hue.
The sky conditions were very poor for taking images, but I did manage to capture a couple of pictures through the clouds, we were just so lucky to even have seen it at all : -)
This was not a full total eclipse of the Moon, as the Moon did not go fully into the earth’s shadow (Umbra) but it did have all the colours of a lunar eclipse, it was in reality a partial lunar eclipse.
My images were captured with a Canon 70D camera and a Tamron 18-400mm lens with a 2x teleconverter attached making a focal length 1280mm and the camera was on an ordinary camera tripod. The lunar eclipse photo had an exposure of 2 seconds and ISO 640, three images were captured and stacked in Registak6 a processed in PS CS4.
The rising eclipsed Moon disappeared behind the clouds at 6.30pm...Oh No :-o
Please go to the NASA Science website to read more about this almost Total Lunar Eclipse at:
https://moon.nasa.gov/news/168/an-almost-total-lunar-eclipse/
A world map showing where the eclipse is visible at the time of greatest eclipse. Earlier parts of the eclipse are visible farther east, while later times are visible farther west.
Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
On November 19, 2021 (late evening of the 18th in some time zones), the Moon passes into the shadow of the Earth, creating a partial lunar eclipse so deep that it can reasonably be called almost total.
Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
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