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.
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.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, it seems I picked up the cold!
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