![]() If that’s unlikely, it’s worth remembering that during totality the night sky around the Moon is weirdly dark. Take wide-angle images of the ‘Blood Moon’ and might just catch a ‘shooting star’ from the Southern Taurid and Northern Taurid meteor showers, which peak either side of the total lunar eclipse. How to capture Uranus and ‘shooting stars’ If you have enough ambient light to bring out the foreground, pan out a bit from the lunar disk, find something else of interest for your composition – a building, a mountain, people or preferably something unexpected – and let the majestic Moon help you create an out-of-this-world shot. The best captures of a full moon rising and/or a lunar eclipse close to the horizon are those that have creative compositions. Start-off with your camera set to ISO 100, f/10 and 1/125sec, but the exact settings will depend upon your lens and the quickly changing light. Here’s something the entire world can do – as wherever you are in the world, there will be a full moon for you to photograph. (Image credit: Grant Faint via Getty Images) The best wide lenses for astrophotography How to photograph the full moon.Bracketing either side of your target exposure is the way to go. It’s all a trade-off between ISO and shutter speed, but a Lunar Eclipse Exposure Calculator will help you figure out base settings for your lens. With a shutter delay set, and shooting in RAW, during totality keep the aperture as wide as possible (a low f-number), begin with ISO 800 and use a fast shutter speed – about 1/100sec – to keep the shot sharp. An alternative that will work for all lenses is to use your camera’s LCD screen to look at part of the Moon zoomed-in, and then to focus until sharp (either manually or using auto-focus, though if the latter you must then switch to manual mode to prevent your camera from refocusing for your next shot). Using infinity focus might work, depending on your lens. Alternatively a bridge camera, with its built-in superzoom will do the trick. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani (Image credit: NASA)įor a close-up of the Moon you’ll need a DSLR or mirrorless camera with a 300mm telephoto lens on a tripod – but ideally one that is at least 600mm long. The effects on Earth’s atmosphere of t he Tongan volcano in January 2022 is also likely to make this a relatively darker lunar eclipse.Ī perigee full moon, or supermoon, is seen behind the Washington Monument during a total lunar eclipse on Sunday, September 27, 2015, in Washington, DC. Because it’s traveling through the darkest part of Earth’s shadow the moon is expected to be a dark red. The result, of course, is a ‘Blood Moon’, though in truth it’s more of a copper-reddish color. ![]() Short-wavelength blue light from the Sun tends to hit particles in Earth’s atmosphere whereas longer-wavelength red and orange light mostly travels right through. When that happens – something that can take hours – the only light that can reach the lunar surface has first been filtered through Earth’s atmosphere. The latter sees its near-side 100%-lit by the Sun, but just occasionally it travels precisely through the middle of Earth’s dark circular shadow in space. The Moon orbits Earth every 27 days, during which time it passes roughly between the Earth and the Sun (an invisible New Moon) and, 14 days later, moves to the other side of Earth to the Sun (a full Moon). These changes make this celestial phenomenon interesting to watch throughout the eclipse rather than at a particular moment, he said.Also called a ‘Blood Moon’, a lunar eclipse is caused by a full Moon passing through Earth’s shadow in space. While the eclipse’s peak may only last for a short amount of time, the moon’s coppery tones will change throughout the night, according to Petro. Then there will not be another total lunar eclipse until March 2025, he added. While the eclipse peaks for only a short amount of time, Petro said the moon would be bathed in coppery tones throughout the night, making it a particularly interesting celestial phenomenon to watch.Ībout two lunar eclipses occur each year, and the next will be a total lunar eclipse in November, Petro said. Stargazers around the world turned out to witness and capture the lunar event in images. ![]() The total lunar eclipse was visible in much of Africa, Europe and South America and most of North America. People in South America and in the eastern part of North America were expected to get the best view of the lunar eclipse, said Noah Petro, chief of NASA’s Planetary Geology, Geophysics and Geochemistry Lab, before the eclipse. The blood moon rises over lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City on May 15, 2022.
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