Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Lunar Eclipse



January twentieth's total lunar eclipse, on a cold, clear night, the so called Super Blood Wolf Moon. Below zero temperature, the moon at high altitude, a clumsy tripod incapable of the angle, and an adapted, low quality Minolta 210mm zoom from the 1980s on my great Olympus EM10, all overcome to capture a couple of nearly steady images at several second exposures. If you look closely, or click on the image, you can even see a few shaky stars. Lunar eclipses reveal the moon's spherical form more than our usual moon, offering us the subtlest grasp on the depths above.


2 comments:

  1. Gorgeous result! We had too much cloud cover to see it - grrrrr! May I "borrow" this to practice drawing spheres? Hope you're staying warm enough this week of deep, deep freeze.

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    1. Unfortunately, it seems I picked up the cold!

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