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cool stuff.

howe come your title is "total eclipse of the moon" when in fact, it's only partially eclipsed?

Please excuse me if I sound ignorant, but I've seen eclipses before an even a few total eclipses and they covered by a complete shadow. . . Is this a shot of a lunar eclipse? Maybe I'm thinking of a solar eclipse where the moon is blocked out?

In any event, I like the shots, very nicely done!!!!



That ISNT a partial eclipse. The regular moon is about 4-5 stops brighter....your seeing the movement of the darkest part of the shadow across the face of the entirely blocked moon. On his AND my picture...the shadow has moved a bit to the right....and in about an hour later....portions of the moon are again fully exposed to the sun and you start to see the standard white crecent moon transform to a full moon over the next hour....the moon is never fully dark...as the distance of the moon from the earth allows some bleed over light to occur keeping it softly lit and the red is from the light bending in the prismatic atmosphere of earth. If the moon was further or closer.....it would be a diffrent color due to the prisim effect on the asmosphere....and be darker or lighter during the transition.

Roman

Roman Johnston
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