An HDR stack of images to encompass the range of brightness from the bright portion of the lunar disk (at right here) still just in the penumbral shadow, to the dark portion of the disk at left deep in the umbral shadow. I’ve processed the image for enhanced contrast to bring out the color variation along the umbral shadow boundary where it appears blue, from sunlight filtering through the high atmosphere of Earth in the stratospheric ozone layer. I shot this at the October 8, 2014 total lunar eclipse, from Writing-on-Stone Park in southern Alberta. This is an HDR-stack of 11 images at 2/3rds stop intervals from 5 seconds to 1/5th second, all at ISO 800 with the Canon 60Da and 80mm f/6 apo refractor. Stacked in HDRPro in Photoshop with 32-bit ACR tone-mapping. Taken 7 to 5 minutes before totality began. Light cloud and haze added the sky glow. Uranus is to the left at the 9 o’clock position as a blue star.
The total eclipse of the Moon, April 15, 2014 local time just after sunset from Australia, seen from Shingle Splitter's Point overlooking Lake Macquarie on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. It was fortunate that we saw this eclipse at all as the sky was very cloudy and at times it was actually raining on us. But about 6 pm the Moon appeared as totality was ending. The Moon appears below Spica and below right of Mars. The lake has a red glitter path from the eclipsed Moon. This is an 8-second exposure at f/2.8 with the 50mm lens on the Canon 60Da at ISO 800.
