Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Lunar Eclipse December 20, 2010






The above eclipse sequence was shot last night in Tucson between 11:20 pm and 12:50 am.  Each image is a single shot: the first four with an exposure time of 0.01 sec. and the last with 6 sec.  Unfortunately there were clouds and the moon was slipping in and out of the cloud cover.  The first image was taken just prior to the Moon entering the Earth's shadow; in the last image the Moon is fully within the shadow.  It wasn't a perfect night for imaging but the progression of the eclipse is clear.

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