Moon
Sunday, March 4th, 2007Tonight’s lunar eclipse.
I was using my camera with the rubbish 300mm lens, in our back garden:
Full moon, taken at around 9pm:
This is about when we can see the eclipse:
Half-eclipsed in the earth’s shadow:
More:
What doesn’t really come out well in photographs, and what you don’t know unless you read stories about 19th century travellers: The lunar eclipsed moon has an uncanny bloody quality about it. We know that this is caused by light filtering through the earth’s atmosphere, but still it is unsettling. I tried to capture this in this photograph, taken with a 1 minute exposure during the eclipse:
