About 11pm, October 10th. Our largest northern exposure (through the trees) is from the bottom of the driveway, looking up the street. I had a vague idea I might be sensing some pinkness in the haze, but wasn’t sure I wasn’t imaging it. With the big camera on a tripod, in the dark I couldn’t remember how to do a time exposure of more than 15 seconds. Looked like all I got was black. But later in Lightroom, I maximized the exposure, then saved these three shots.
We had our weekly Zoom chat April 7th. Gareth said “Today’s clear sky was great for eclipse photo dry runs… Spent hours fussing with cardboard filter-adapters and such.” He’s the only one of us living in the Zone of Totality.
Sandy and I weren’t in the zone of totality, and we’d heard we’d only get about an 86% eclipse. We sat on the porch for the duration. Assuming only 14% of sunlight, we’d expected our afternoon to get much darker than the slight reduction we experienced. Another puzzle for me was it seemed as though the moon didn’t cross the sun in a straight line. It entered the sun from the lower right, seemed to move straight right-to-left, then veered upwards and departed from the top middle. (Somebody living only a few miles from us made a Facebook post showing exactly how we saw the eclipse.) Gareth thought if we’d viewed the eclipse at noon from the equator, then the path might have been straight. Here’s Nick’s photo of Dad, followed by one or two more for the scrapbook.
Another view, via Facebook and a NASA website:
The Beaver Moon’s eclipse is described here: https://www.space.com/beaver-moon-lunar-eclipse-photos-november-2021
as seen in the dark, 5:53am July 11th 2020, from our powder room but subsequently with a little help from Lightroom. Original concept and installation by Rachel & Becky, c.1998.
Or part thereof. Hard to find a good shot through the trees, and yes it is a moving target when seen through the zoom. Ruth P thought I’d sent the second picture before. No, it is a new one, however admittedly similar to what I’ve got often in the past when trying to take a picture of the moon.
Couldn’t see the January 31st early-morning eclipse from our half of North America, but by bedtime the moon was again dominating our sky. A couple of weeks later I adjusted exposure and other settings in Lightroom, but left the original viewable here.
