Got my pictures of the total lunar eclipse together, this was my first attempt at doing a final collage photo at each phase, which I kind of bunged up the timings a little bit but it still turned out good enough.

Wow thankyou everyone! I was not expecting to get 280+ upvotes

  • confuserOP
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    262 days ago

    Here are all of the individual pics in case anyone wants to see them

    • Maeve
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      52 days ago

      The third and fifth are my favorites, because it looks like a giant red balloon with the round spot. The bws are nice too but I’m thinking of the 99 red balloons (only in English version).

  • jutty
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    41 day ago

    Wow! Congrats on doing this. This community keeps impressing me, sure one of the most impressive OC stuff I’ve found on Lemmy.

  • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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    62 days ago

    Nice! Except…

    Apparently the first 4 photos are off by 90⁰ from the last five photos. I’m assuming the auto leveling sensors got a bit confused when the moon was directly overhead.

    It might have helped to disable the auto orientation/leveling thing in the camera app first, but at least it’s easy enough to turn 90⁰ in software.

    • confuserOP
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      82 days ago

      Yeah I was using a reflector telescope on a tripod with a counterweight so once the moon reached peak sky height, I had to flip the orientation of the telescope. Basically the reason why they flipped was because I kept the camera leveled with the horizon while I flipped the telescope instead of also flipping the camera.

  • @conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Nice work on this! Let’s see, that really bright point is Jupiter, right? I know Jupiter’s been hanging out in Taurus, so the moon eclipsed while it passed through Taurus?

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      I don’t remember where specifically I pointed the camera for the night sky picture but it was roughly inline but out of the way with the moon going upward in the sky near the peak I think

  • @chestercheetah@lemm.ee
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    32 days ago

    Awesome pictures, thanks for sharing. I just started painting again and decided to do a series on the moon. I’ve done the first painting so far. These are great inspiration!

  • stebo
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    11 day ago

    Am I correct to assume that the red glow is always there, but since the white reflection is much brighter, it only becomes visible when the moon is completely dark so the camera adjusts to capture the fainter light?

      • stebo
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        11 day ago

        i know but I’m talking about why only the images in the middle show red, it doesn’t just appear out of nowhere right?

        • KubeRoot
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          31 day ago

          I think that’s what they’re saying, when the light passes through Earth’s atmosphere before hitting the moon, the blue is filtered out and the result is red.

          That said, I do also believe it doesn’t show up immediately on full eclipse, so there is some red light before, and indeed it’s just overwhelmed by the much brighter direct illumination.