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Eclipsed Moon Below Pleiades - Nov 19, 2021 (RedCat R6).jpg
The deep partial eclipse of the Moon of November 19, 2021, with the reddened Moon below the Pleiades star cluster, M45, in Taurus, the hallmark feature of this eclipse which at maximum at 2:03 am MST (about 8 minutes after this sequence was taken at 1:55 am MST) was 97% partial, so not quite total. The southern limb of the Moon remained bright and outside the umbra, making this a very challenging scene to capture and process, to bring out the Pleiades and its nebulosity without blowing out the Moon too much and suppressing the bright glow around the Moon from the light haze in the sky.
However, inevitably, the long exposures add some glow around the Moon, from the bright portion of its disk still in full sunlight. But this is an authentic scene, not a Moon pasted onto a sky background taken on another night to simulate the scene.
Taken from a site near Rowley, Alberta after a chase north to get out from under clouds and haze into clearer skies to allow exposures like this to record the starfield.
This is a stack of 2 x 30-second exposures at ISO 3200 for the base sky, blended with 30s, 8s, 2s, and 0.6s exposures at ISO 800, all with the Canon EOS R6 camera on the William Optics RedCat astrograph at f/4.9, and on the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer tracker at the sidereal rate.
Images blended with luminosity masks created with ADP Panel Pro/LumiFlow, but with lots of manual manipulation and gradient masks to adjustment layers to smooth the blend.
However, inevitably, the long exposures add some glow around the Moon, from the bright portion of its disk still in full sunlight. But this is an authentic scene, not a Moon pasted onto a sky background taken on another night to simulate the scene.
Taken from a site near Rowley, Alberta after a chase north to get out from under clouds and haze into clearer skies to allow exposures like this to record the starfield.
This is a stack of 2 x 30-second exposures at ISO 3200 for the base sky, blended with 30s, 8s, 2s, and 0.6s exposures at ISO 800, all with the Canon EOS R6 camera on the William Optics RedCat astrograph at f/4.9, and on the Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer tracker at the sidereal rate.
Images blended with luminosity masks created with ADP Panel Pro/LumiFlow, but with lots of manual manipulation and gradient masks to adjustment layers to smooth the blend.
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