The total lunar eclipse of May 26, 2021, taken at 5:01 MDT, about 10 minutes before the start of totality, with a thin arc of the Full Moon at th
The total lunar eclipse of May 26, 2021, taken at 5:01 MDT, about 10 minutes before the start of totality, with a thin arc of the Full Moon at the top of the disk still in sunlight. The rest is in the red umbral shadow of the Earth but the eclipsed portion of the Moon was so dim it was disappearing into the brightening twilight. About 3 to 4 minutes later, the Moon was gone, into totality and too dim to see. I shot this from a location just south of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, chosen to be under clear skies at eclipse time, which proved to be the case. So despite this being a lunar eclipse widely seen over half the world, a chase was still required to see it! In this case, I drove to a site farther north and into a brighter sky at eclipse time, but with much better weather prospects than sites in Alberta to the south where the sky would have been a bit darker and closer to the mountains. But I was happy to get it! This is a single exposure with the 200mm Canon L lens at f/8 and the red-sensitive (helping with the sunrise colours) Canon Ra at ISO 200, untracked on a tripod.
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Photo credit: © Alan Dyer / VWPics / Alamy / Afripics
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