We had occasion to view the supermoon lunar eclipse this evening. We got a couple of clear shots through the Nikon.
Here’s a shot of the eclipse with part of our neighbor’s tree in the foreground.
Here’s one through the telephoto lens, with tripod.
I got a couple dozen shots, but only a few turned out in decent focus. The tripod helped considerably, although the first photo (with the tree) was taken without the tripod.
It seems to me that the camera picks up the redness of the moon better than my eye did. That’s no surprise considering the aperture of the lens vs. my pupil. To my eye, it was a duller brown color. Before totality, with a bit of the edge of the moon still illuminated, it reminded me of viewing the polar ice cap of mars through the telescope (only with the naked eye).
There is a surreal feeling watching the eclipse–something you can’t quite put your finger on. Being a sight you don’t see every day, one feels as if one is looking at something that isn’t supposed to look that way.
Luke 21:25
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of the sea and of the waves;