OK, so this is not exactly a Midlands exclusive, but the longest running lunar eclipse in about eleven years is worth noting, isn't it? From around eight fifteen in the evening until shortly before midnight, the full moon above home was slowly shaded from the sun by our own little planet, disappearing almost completely except for a ghostly reddish glow in the sky at about nine fifty three pm. Not being one to enjoy watching paint dry, a close runner would be watching every slow second of a total eclipse of the moon. And so I set my camera up on a tripod, switched the auto timer on to five minute intervals and went inside to watch Al Sugar candy coating his current lot of imbecilic apprentices. Ad breaks were conveniently spaced to pop outside into the chilled night air to do camera position adjustments compensating for the arcing track of my subject.
I really don’t have the right kit to produce high resolution images of celestial subjects, but by stitching together three of those timed exposures as a triptych, the story of the eclipse is told. (You may want to click on the image to enlarge it and clearly see all three shots). I quite like this result.
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