Lunar Eclipse September 27, 2015.
The partly cloudy forecast and webcam images didn’t look all that promising in the Eastern Sierra yesterday afternoon, so I ditched my plans to pursue one of several compositions that I had worked out, and I stayed home to see if the moon would make any appearance at all. Here’s the story and some of my results from the event.
Total Lunar Eclipse September 27, 2015: wide angle time-lapse and 640mm effective live action footage from the total lunar eclipse last night. The partly cloudy forecast and webcam images didn’t look all that promising in the Eastern Sierra yesterday afternoon, so I ditched my plans to pursue one of several compositions that I had worked out, and I stayed home to see if the moon would make any appearance at all.
I watched for about an hour after it was supposed to rise at 6:44, but there was no sign of it, so I left my camera shooting a sequence of images for a time-lapse video, and I went back inside. A few minutes later, the fully eclipsed moon was visible through a break in the clouds, from 7:56 – 8:06. I came back out a while later, but the moon was behind the clouds, so I didn’t know that it had made a brief appearance until I reviewed the images later!
As the face of the moon returned to fully lit in the penumbral phase of the eclipse, there was a nice halo of color around the moon, so I set up a second camera to capture that. I used my Canon EOS 70D with the EF 70-200mm f/4 IS L Series lens and a 2X teleconverter, for an effective focal length of 640mm. The clouds were moving pretty quickly, so I also captures dome live video of the clouds moving across the face of the moon. I had the camera on a sky-tracking mount, so the moon remains essentially still in the frame.
I didn’t shoot where I expected or capture what I anticipated, but by being there to catch changes in the weather, I captured some interesting results.
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: ) !!!!!!
Nossa e que lindo
YeahThat.
Extraordinaire ! J'aime
+Janey Honeychurch
Great image, +Jeff Sullivan Good to see you back on G+
+Shirlee Severs Thanks, I drove from the Eastern Sierra to Lassen Volcanic Park, Crater Lake National Park, Bandon, Mount Rainier, Port Townsend on the Olympic Peninsula, Revelstoke National Park British Columbia, Lake Louise in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Fernie, B.C., Glacier National Park, Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, then back home via Salt Lake City. I was doing a lot of driving so I didn't have much time to process images, and I had no cellular plan in Canada and minimal service elsewhere, so although I took time to clear memory cards, it was effectively a vacation from the Internet.
Wonderful capture of the moon!! It's my pleasure to share your amazing photo to the +Landscape Photography page! Check out all the great photos there including yours!!
I produced a video during the lunar eclipse as well, with both time-lapse and live action video: https://vimeo.com/jeffsullivan/lunar-eclipse-september-27-2015-night-photography
Amazing capture!
Magnifique! :-)))
Great choice on staying home as I was sitting on top of North Dome ready for the picture, praying the clouds would go away and then it never happened. The sunset was spectacular, the moon setting was gorgeous so all in all it wasn’t a total bust. I look forward to meeting you one day, your work is spectacular.
Good.
beautiful!