I’m really not happy with most of the photos of the Hovenweep lunar eclipse. I tried to catch the landscape with the moon and that put things too far way. Not to mention the ISO may have been set too high and the photos are grainy.
Sunset was rather pretty.
Only had one tripod for the big Nikon so tried some handheld with the smaller camera.
The moon was already starting to eclipse when it came up over the horizon. I took photos every five minutes but won’t bore you with the entire series. The September 28, 2015 Total Lunar Eclipse is the fourth and final eclipse in a series of four total lunar eclipses called the lunar tetrad. The first three eclipses of the tetrad took place on April 15, 2014, October 8, 2014 and April 4, 2015. Total eclipses of Super Full Moons are rare and the next won’t happen again for another 18 years, until October 8, 2033.
Then I zoomed in to see just the moon in it’s final phases but forgot to refocus so they are all fuzzy.
Put the small camera on the picnic table but they turned out fuzzy too.
Didn’t stay awake for the moon coming out of eclipse.
I wandered back to earlier times when the People living at Hovenweep must have wondered what this disappearing blood moon meant.
Omw Gawlyn those are amazing capturea. I love the image with many moons !
Thanks Jo.
You say you’re not happy, but most turned out well. Moons are tricky, red or not!
I think I got better shots on the last eclipses. But thank you.
If I could do as well as that I would have been more than happy. I think they are great. Well done. Diane
Don’t feel bad, most of our moon shots didn’t look as good as yours. It was still something to see!
It was awesome but I was disappointed in most of the photos.
Gaelyn those are just wonderful pictures. You are a very strict critic! I love the one of the 5 moons. How did you do that? Really amazingly beautiful. I didn’t get to see a thing. Total cloud cover. I haven’t seen any of these 3 for the same reason. I’m always in the wrong place. What a bummer.
Thank you very much. Maybe I am too critical. I used a combination of LightRoom and Picasa to put together the 5 moons as a collage. Bummer about the cloud cover.
It is so easy to imagine that people would have thought something terrible might be happening.
Certainly would have been confusing.
How fortunate you had beautiful clear skies there – love the shots with the landscape in front. I can hear the people weaving stories and making predictions based on the unnatural colored moon. It must have been really scary to most!
Thanks Jodee. I missed the last April eclipse because of clouds so was happy to have clear skies. Hard to imagine how the people of the past interpreted a phenomenon like this.
Those are great pics. The moon is difficult. My best pics were with my Canon SX40. Mr Google tells me to put it on a tripod set it to auto and let her rip.
Thanks. I don’t have much luck using auto on anything.
Loved these since I didn’t see t at all!
Thanks Barb.