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Photos of last year's lunar eclipse, November 19th, 2021

A few photos from last year’s partial lunar eclipse, which lasted for several early morning hours on November 19th, 2021.

From the observer’s perspective, the strangest thing about this event was that I could see all of the moon, but in a state of halfway illumination. On an ordinary night, it might be possible to see the part of the moon that is in shadow, but you have to look quite hard for it. Here the shape of the whole moon was obvious.

In any single photographic exposure I also found it difficult to capture both the intense reddish color of the moon and the well-defined “terminator line,” the division between region of the moon in partial shadow and the region receiving unobstructed light. Each photo shows a different aspect of the impression the moon made on my eye.

moon dark color

This image conveys a decent view of the strong difference between dark and light regions, but the colors are all wrong

Moon very bright, overexposed

An overexposed image that better conveys the reddish appearance

The moon near the pleiades constellation

The moon near the Pleiades star cluster

Shorter exposure

terminator line

Another view of the terminator line with even stronger contrast


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