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Lunar eclipse, January 20, 2019, Charles Pevsner
Lunar eclipse, January 20, 2019, Charles Pevsner

Lunar eclipse, January 20, 2019

Lunar eclipse, January 20, 2019, Charles Pevsner
Lunar eclipse, January 20, 2019, Charles Pevsner

Lunar eclipse, January 20, 2019

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Clouded out by lunar eclipse from today (November 19, 2021) so here are ones from a previous eclipse, which I have not previously published.

Total lunar eclipse from January 20, 2019, from Riverside, Connecticut.
It's rare I can shoot anything at all from my backyard because of high trees (and light pollution), but in this case the moon was almost straight overhead.
All at 300mm.  Clockwise, from upper left:

  • Penumbra:  2019-01-10 22:06 EST, 1/200 sec at f/13
  • Partial eclipse:  2019-01-20 11:03 EST, 1/200 sec at f/13
  • Early totality:  2019-01-20 11:54 EST, 0.6 sec at f/5.6
  • Deep totality:   2019-01-21, 00:17 EST, 0.4 sec at f/6.3

The moon does not disappear even at full totality, when completely in Earth’s shadow, because sunlight refracting through Earth's atmosphere is scattered onto the moon.  Blue light is scattered more than red, so more of the red light makes it to the moon, giving it that eerie red-orange glow.

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Lunar eclipse, January 20, 2019, Charles Pevsner