Click the green flag to start, then use left and right arrow keys to navigate slides. Descriptions are below: 1. I woke up around 4:00 AM, when the Earth's shadow had already intruded partway into the disk of the moon. I took this photo before walking to a local observatory to meet up with friends from my college's astronomy club. 2. By 4:30 the moon was more than halfway occluded 3. There was still a small sliver of the moon illuminated at 5:00 4. Another photo taken around 5:00, but with a longer exposure time to make it easier to see the part of the moon in the umbra 5. The completely eclipsed moon, around 5:30 6. Another photo from around 5:30, with a much longer exposure time; note the reddish color. 7. I had some fun trying to take long-exposure pictures with our telescope in the foreground. 8. A 2-second exposure with an airplane passing through the field of view, resulting in the streak of light; you can even see when the red and green navigation lights flashed! 9. Jupiter was out as well, though my camera didn't really have the light collection capacity necessary to get good photos of it. You can at least see the four Galilean moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto), though two of them are smeared together on the right side. 10. The moon exiting umbra around 6:30 11. The last view of the moon before it set below the trees, around 7:00
I was lucky enough to be in the Los Angeles area with clear skies for the lunar eclipse this morning, and took some pictures! All photos taken by me using a Cannon EOS Rebel T5i camera with a 75-300mm zoom lens.
