The partial eclipse of the Moon of November 19, 2021, with the Moon below the Pleiades star cluster, M45, in Taurus, the hallmark feature of this ecli
The partial eclipse of the Moon of November 19, 2021, with the Moon below the Pleiades star cluster, M45, in Taurus, the hallmark feature of this eclipse which at maximum (about 20 minutes before this sequence was taken) was 97% partial, so not quite total. The southern limb of the Moon remained bright and outside the umbra, making this a very challenging scene to capture, to bring out the Pleiades and its nebulosity without blowing out the Moon too much. The long exposures inevitably add the glow around the Moon, from the bright portion of its disk still in full sunlight. But this is an authentic scene, not a Moon pasted onto a sky background taken on another night to simulate the scene. Taken from a site near Rowley, Alberta after a chase north to get out from under clouds and haze into clearer skies to allow exposures like this to record the starfield. This is a stack of 2 x 30-second exposures at ISO 1600 for the base sky, blended with 10s, 4s, 1s, and exposures at ISO 800, all with the Canon EOS Ra camera on the William Optics RedCat astrograph at and on the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer tracker at the sidereal rate. Images blended with luminosity masks created with ADP Panel Pro/LumiFlow, but with lots of manual manipulation to smooth the blend.
Size: 3600px × 5400px
Photo credit: © Alan Dyer / VWPics / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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