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Deep Partial Lunar Eclipse ✨
August 2026, over Lake Ontario
A lunar eclipse is basically watching a sunset on the moon ☀️🌏🌑
Light from the sun passes through the Earth's atmosphere, scattering red wavelengths that pass deep into Earth's shadow (the umbra). The blue band comes from light passing through the ozone layer of our atmosphere.
This eclipse, the moon only reached 96% coverage, leaving a sliver of full illumination rather than reaching full totality.
This is a series of shots, built from 5000 photos I took during the eclipse. I shot a timelapse of bracketed exposures to capture the depths of the eclipsed darkeness and the blinding brightness of the remaining sliver. I then took each phase of the eclipse and merged the brackets into an HDR shot to preserve the shadows and the highlights.
EXIF Data:
1/320 to 8s, ISO 100, F11
Brackets from 3 to 9 shots
Sony A7ill
Sony 100-400 mm with 1.4x teleconverter
Star adventurer tracker & mount