Where was the blood red moon?
Jan 22, 2019 13:18:37 #
foxfirerodandgun
Loc: Stony Creek, VA
tomcat wrote:
eastern NC.
I meant that the eclipsed portion of the moon (98%) was not red.
Jan 23, 2019 05:43:35 #
I shot this in the U.K. at about 5a.m. Monday morning. Nikon D850, 300mm PF lens, f8, 1sec, ISO400
Jan 23, 2019 06:15:40 #
foxfirerodandgun wrote:
At 98% full eclipse it was not a bit red here in SE VA either.
I live near Blacksburg Va, and at 12:00 midnight it was overhead and very red here. It was so cold I chose to go back to bed instead of pulling out my gear.
Jan 23, 2019 06:22:32 #
In Tennessee, the moon was red in the camera (high ISO), but later, when shooting the moon when it was partially occluded, the redness did not show up.
Jan 23, 2019 06:32:49 #
Wanderer2
Loc: Colorado Rocky Mountains
tomcat wrote:
I saw a lot of moon shots posted with a red tint to the eclipse. None of my shots had the slightest hint of red in them. Was the color related to the atmosphere?
Here in Colorado my shots show the moon becoming red as the eclipse deepened. All of them with more than 50% or so shadow show a red moon over the shaded part. Exposure has a lot to do with it, or so it seemed to me - I did a lot of bracketing. Don't know if it had any effect but I was at 7800 ft. elevation.
Jan 23, 2019 07:22:22 #
tomcat wrote:
I saw a lot of moon shots posted with a red tint to the eclipse. None of my shots had the slightest hint of red in them. Was the color related to the atmosphere?
I found that the red color did not appear until after midnight, EST. I took all my photos during the approach to eclipse, so I got almost none of the color. I think timing might answer most of the questions of whether there was color in the eclipse.
Jan 23, 2019 07:24:58 #
BillyP
Loc: Cedar Point, NC
I was shooting in Eastern NC also, Cedar Point and I got a Blood Moon. I think your moon shot was not quite full eclipse and under exposed.
Jan 23, 2019 07:26:34 #
tomcat wrote:
I saw a lot of moon shots posted with a red tint to the eclipse. None of my shots had the slightest hint of red in them. Was the color related to the atmosphere?
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-574749-1.html
Total eclipse made it red
Jan 23, 2019 07:40:29 #
tomcat wrote:
eastern NC.
Appears to be underexposed. Try stretching it.
Jan 23, 2019 08:31:13 #
Guyserman
Loc: Benton, AR
alberio wrote:
What you got was nice, but a longer exposure, faster aperture or higher ISO would show the color.
Exactly
Jan 23, 2019 08:45:48 #
Seeing the 'red' portion of a lunar eclipse is a matter of timing. Since the eclipse takes some hours to complete, you can easily miss that part. People say 'blood moon' but that is rather over-dramatic since as you can see from pictures (and most pictures I see are pretty accurate for color), the moon becomes brownish orange and not red.
The best time to see this colorful phase of a lunar eclipse is during a total eclipse, where the center of earths' shadow completely covers the moon. But actually during this time the moon is still partially illuminated by sunlight passing thru earths' atmosphere, all around the entire circumference of the earth. These are all the orange sunsets and sunrises on the earth, all at once shining on the moon(!) That is why the moon takes on this color at this time.
If one were standing on the moon during a total lunar eclipse, you would see the earth blocking the sun, but the dark silhouette of the earth would present a bright orange ring of all those sunsets/sunrises.
The best time to see this colorful phase of a lunar eclipse is during a total eclipse, where the center of earths' shadow completely covers the moon. But actually during this time the moon is still partially illuminated by sunlight passing thru earths' atmosphere, all around the entire circumference of the earth. These are all the orange sunsets and sunrises on the earth, all at once shining on the moon(!) That is why the moon takes on this color at this time.
If one were standing on the moon during a total lunar eclipse, you would see the earth blocking the sun, but the dark silhouette of the earth would present a bright orange ring of all those sunsets/sunrises.
Jan 23, 2019 09:01:11 #
The red/orange color didn't really show until the total eclipse and some cameras like my Sony HX400V can't produce an image through the electronic finder system and focus properly in the extreme low light at that time. It's a tough thing to shoot with conventional camera equipment, DSLR cameras with really long lenses often have shutter and mirror vibration issues that blur the image at the magnification. Just plain difficult. I got decent images right up to the total eclipse and then camera couldn't show the moon. A real challenge!
Jan 23, 2019 09:25:11 #
Mcwane wrote:
I live near Blacksburg Va, and at 12:00 midnight it was overhead and very red here. It was so cold I chose to go back to bed instead of pulling out my gear.
Same here in New Hampshire. The moon was a uniformly rusty red at 12:10 AM but it was also minus 1 degrees with a 30 mph wind on my deck so I didn't even try to set up my gear. As I expected, there have been plenty of good shots posted on UHH by those who had more benign conditions or more intestinal fortitude than me.
Jan 23, 2019 09:30:38 #
This moon shot is nice and clear, but exposed for the highlights. I can see color tinge in the shadows. I brought your image into PS CC, and increased exposure in shadows, and added saturation. You did in fact capture the blood color. Try this on your RAW file, you may be surprised.
I used 2 stop bracket on my shots, so when you see the color you completely blow out the highlites, but HDR brings most of it it back.
I used 2 stop bracket on my shots, so when you see the color you completely blow out the highlites, but HDR brings most of it it back.
Jan 23, 2019 09:57:58 #
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