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

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      2 months 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).

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    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.

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      2 months 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.

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    2 months 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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      2 months ago

      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

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    2 months ago

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

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    2 months 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!

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          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.