Snowy Lunar Eclipse & Aurora
Taken by Alan Dyer on November 8, 2022 @
near Gleichen, Alberta
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS R5
Exposure Time: 60/1
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 1600
Date Taken: 2022:11:08 10:59:08
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The main image is a wide-angle view of the total eclipse of the Moon of November 8, 2022, with the red Moon at right beside the stars of the northern winter sky and Milky Way, plus with bright red Mars at top. Above and left of the Moon is the blue Pleiades star cluster, while below it and to the left is the larger Hyades cluster with reddish Aldebaran in Taurus. The stars of Orion are left of centre, including reddish Betelgeuse, while at far left are the two Dog Stars: Procyon, at top, in Canis Minor, and Sirius, at bottom, in Canis Major.
So this is a gathering of many red stars, planets and the rare red Moon.
However, we also had a small display of Northern Lights that appeared and peaked during totality as the sky darkened to reveal the aurora.
All shot from home in southern Alberta on a night that we were lucky to have clear at all, as it had been snowing heavily all day. It cleared at night as predicted, but the temperature dropped to -25° C, so just operating gear was a chore, limiting my ambitions this night! And my travels. Snowy roads kept me home, but for once I didn't need to chase clear skies for a lunar eclipse.
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I shot the frames for the main eclipse scene beginning at 3:50 am MST, 10 minutes before mid-totality during this 1h25m-long total eclipse. Some ice haze this night added the natural star glows. Either bands of airglow, or perhaps just reflected lights off the icy haze add the reddish bands to the sky. The sky scene appears over the old abandoned pioneer house on my property.
This is a stack of 4 x 1-minute tracked exposures at ISO 1600 for the sky, blended with a single 1-minute tracked exposure at ISO 1600 for the ground to minimize blurring (I left the tracker running at the sidereal rate for all frames), plus a 5-second exposure for the Moon itself at ISO 400 to preserve the colouration of the disk and not overexpose it. All with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at 16mm and f/2.8 on the Canon R5, and on the Star Adventurer tracker.
Photographer's website:
https://amazingsky.com
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