This is my latest project. I had been planning this for a while. The weather reports weren't good, as far as cloud cover went, so I was thinking I may not bother with it. The afternoon ended up being sunny and warmish with only the odd cloud here and there. I got my gear ready just in case. Sunset was just before 6:30 and after that I was checking the sky every half hour. Just around midnight I decided I would give it a go so I made some coffee and some sandwiches and headed off. So anyway, long story short, I had to brave the cold, the wind, a heavy dew, sea spray (the sea was quite rough and the tide was coming in fast) and quite a bit of cloud just after the full eclipse. Anyway, I'm pretty happy with this composite. It took me about three hours to put this together.
Sept. 23, 2025
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Very impressive!
Technical question - on those intermediate phases (crescent), does shadowed lunar surface have dark red color too or is that completely supressed by image dynamic range? In theory it should reflect similar color, but that is just practically not visible (to human eye) due to the high contrast.
We had pretty thick fog that night, I could barely see opposite building - no possibility to even see the Moon, not talking about recording eclipse.
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I'm impressed too. I was in Adelaide on Sept 8 but slept through the eclipse. Where did you take these from? The clarity of the surface details has me guessing that you were out of the city?
I really like the composition here with the progressive images along a diagonal line in the frame. It appropriately suggests the passing of time of the event. Likewise the thransition of shapes and colour that begin and end with the moon we expect.
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I took these at Brighton Beach which is only about a 10 minute drive from home. Just on the northern side of the jetty there are a couple of picnic shelters.
You really don’t notice any of the red colour on the moon until full eclipse. The middle photo was taken at F8, 1 sec @ ISO 3200 so it is way dimmer than even the smallest crescent.
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That's a great series, well taken & well presented !
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Beautiful work, Richard.
Steve Thomas
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Interesting.
F8, 1 sec @ ISO 3200 is an Exposure Value setting of 11 Ev or Lv, so not super-dark (see Table 2). 11 Ev is just over "twilight" here on planet Earth.
Of course, adjusting the exposure for each shot makes sense for an eclipse composite.
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The first shot in the sequence (top right) was taken about 15 minutes into the eclipse and was taken at F8, 1/250 sec @ ISO 100, which is a pretty standard exposure for a full moon.
