The two-day-old crescent Moon meets Venus on June 11, 2021, two days after its eclipse of the Sun on the morning of June 10. This is overlooking Deadhorse Lake near Hussar, Alberta. This is a single exposure with the 85mm Samyang AF lens on the red-sensitive Canon Ra camera at ISO 100. The Ra brings out the red sunset colours more than a stock camera.
A composite "time-lapse" blend of the setting Full Moon entering the Earth's umbral shadow on the morning of May 26, 2021. I shot the images during the initial partial phases of the total lunar eclipse, pre-dawn as the Moon was setting into the southwest. This shows the Moon moving into Earth's shadow and gradually disappearing in the bright pre-dawn sky. Totality began about 10 minutes after the last image at bottom right was taken, by which time the Moon's disk was too dark and the sky too bright to be able to see the totally eclipsed Moon. I shot this from a location just south of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, chosen to be under clear skies at eclipse time, which proved to be the case. This is a blend of 17 exposures, the last being a 1/4-second exposure with the 85mm Samyang RF lens at f/4 and the Canon R6 at ISO 100, untracked on a tripod. The sky and foreground come from that exposure. The previous images are at shorter shutter speeds (starting at 1/50 second at the start of the eclipse at top left) and generally exposed for the Moon's disk outside the umbra. All are blended onto the base image with a Screen blend mode. Halfway through the sequence some light clouds intervened. I shot images at 1-minute intervals but choose only every 5th image for this blend, so the Moons are spaced at 5-minute intervals. The Moon moves its own diameter from east to west in 2 minutes.
The total lunar eclipse of May 26, 2021, taken at 5:01 a.m. MDT, about 10 minutes before the start of totality, with a thin arc of the Full Moon at the top of the disk still in sunlight. The rest is in the red umbral shadow of the Earth but the eclipsed portion of the Moon was so dim it was disappearing into the brightening twilight. About 3 to 4 minutes later, the Moon was gone, into totality and too dim to see. I shot this from a location just south of Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, chosen to be under clear skies at eclipse time, which proved to be the case. So despite this being a lunar eclipse widely seen over half the world, a chase was still required to see it! In this case, I drove to a site farther north and into a brighter sky at eclipse time, but with much better weather prospects than sites in Alberta to the south where the sky would have been a bit darker and closer to the mountains. But I was happy to get it! This is a single 0.8-second exposure with the 200mm Canon L lens at f/8 and the red-sensitive (helping with the sunrise colours) Canon Ra at ISO 200, untracked on a tripod.
