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The Lunar eclipse of March 3, 2026. During this eclipse, the Moon was low in the western sky and a storm was approaching, so I only had a few minutes to get images before clouds covered the Moon. This image was made moments before the start of totality, thus the bright limb on the lower right.
Technical. The image was obtained with a stock Canon EOS R5 Mirrorless Digital Camera and Canon 100-400 L IS zoom lens at 400mm plus a 1.4x teleconverter. The image was made at 560 mm focal length, f/9, ISO 1600. The copper-colored eclipsed Moon plus the stars is a High Dynamic Range image (HDR) using two exposures: 1) three exposures at 1/2 second for the eclipsed Moon, and 2) three exposures at 5 seconds each for the stars. The total exposure time was 15 seconds for the stars, 1.5 seconds for the Moon. With such long exposures, the Moon and stars were tracked using a Fornax Lighttrack II mount. The image reaches to about stellar magnitude 12.8. The full image was cropped slightly. Full image plate scale is 1.5 arc-seconds / pixel, and the image here is at 4.5 arc-seconds / pixel.
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Last updated March 03, 2026