The total lunar eclipse of April 4, 2015 taken from near Tear Drop Arch, in western Monument Valley, Utah. I shot the totality images at 6:01 a.m. MDT, during mid-totality during the very short 4 minutes of totality. The mid-totality image is a composite of 2 exposures: 30 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 1600 for the sky and landscape, with the sky brightening blue from dawn twilight, and 1.5 seconds at f/5.6 and ISO 400 for the disk of the Moon itself. Also, layered in are 26 short exposures for the partial phases, most being 1/125th sec at f/8 and ISO 400, with ones closer to totality being longer, of varying durations. All are with the 24mm lens and Canon 6D on a static tripod, with the camera not moved through the entire sequence. The short duration of totality at this eclipse lent itself to a sequence with one total phase image flanked by partial phases. The rocks are illuminated by lights from the community - light pollution but photogenic in this case - and partly from dawn glow in the east.
Me smiling after having found clearish skies for the Oct 8, 2014 total lunar eclipse, at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta after a 3-hour drive from 1 to 4 am. This is post-totality when clouds covered the partially eclipsed Moon. I was happy! This was at 5:30 a.m. This is a 30-second exposure at f/2.2 and ISO 3200 with the Canon 6D and 24mm lens.
The October 8, 2014 total lunar eclipse 5 minutes before end of totality with the Moon in thin cloud. Uranus is the bright object at left. I shot this with the Canon 60Da at ISO 400 and 80mm Officina Stellaire apo refractor at f/6 for 15s. Shot from Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta
