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Total Lunar Eclipse on November 8, 2022, JDJ

Total Lunar Eclipse on November 8, 2022

Total Lunar Eclipse on November 8, 2022, JDJ

Total Lunar Eclipse on November 8, 2022

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Imaged the total lunar eclipse on the morning of November 8, 2022.  I was fortunate to observe my third total lunar eclipse in the past year or so (Nov 2021, May 2022, Nov 2022).  This time around good news was the skies were clear, bad news was that the eclipse occurred close to sunrise to the Moon was low in the sky and below the treeline at the time of maximum eclipse from my backyard observing site.  This eclipse seemed darker than the past two, but the moon still took on a rusty red glow as it approached maximum eclipse.  This image was taken at 5:37 am right before the moon went into the treeline (total eclipse began at 5:16 am, maximum eclipse was at 5:59 am).

Imaged with an Astrotech AT60 at F/6 (350 mm focal length), 2.5x Televue Powermate, extension tube from my 5x barlow, and Nikon D750.  I didn't want to breakdown my GT81 deep sky or C8 planetary setups for one night, so I put together this oddball combination which gave my ~875 mm focal length.  This worked pretty well, but the best eclipse setup of the past three lunar eclipses was the C8 with focal reducer giving ~1200 mm focal length combined with the D750.  I'll have to remember that in 2025 when the next total lunar eclipse comes around...

Single shot with 5 second exposure at ISO-1600.  Processed in Pixinsight:  generalized hyperbolic stretch, local histogram transformation, color saturation adjustment.

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