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2022 May 15-16 Larry A. Stevens

Total Lunar Eclipse - 2022.05.15-16 - Entire Sequence

North of Earlham, Iowa

This sequence took me several days to put together. 64 images make up the sequence, with 56 time frames over the entire eclipse. I did not get the opportunity to set my intervalometer tool to space the images equally, so these frames are only roughly 5 minutes apart each. Where there is a break in the lines, the images below one another that they compare directly with shorter/longer exposure times to show the eclipsed Moon.

Because the mount I used for this was an Alt/Az mount, I had to rotate each image proportional to the first image and calculated each frames needed rotation so the images would match the previous

The sequence of the eclipse begins in the top right, with the eclipse progressing to the left, row by row. You can see for yourself that given a long enough exposure, the dark shadow of the Moon can be imaged even when the brightness of the Moon returns, unfortunately I did not do this in the early part of the eclipse, just the latter.

Also the Moon appears a bit rusty in the first few images in the upper right due to the lowness in the atmosphere, giving a reddish hue.

(TLE2022.05.15-16 - Entire SEQ)

Canon EOS 5DS R ,Canon 600mm f/4

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