Oh I didn’t even realize the downvotes. Not sure why either 🤷♂️ my other photos like this people seem to like. And no problem! Happy I could help explain 😊
The Beaver Blood Moon 🌙 🦫, the last total lunar eclipse until 2025. (Timelapse link below)
A composite series of the Beaver Blood Moon from last week. An eclipse occurs when the sun moves behind the Earth, casting the Earth’s shadow on the surface of the moon. The red colour comes from light refracting through the Earth’s atmosphere and experiencing Rayleigh scattering.
This refraction and scattering is the cause of the bright red colour and also why sunrises and sunsets are colourful. You can think of the phenomenon as the sun casting infinite sunrises and sunsets onto the surface of the moon.
With this series, I tried to show the outline of the Earth’s shadow with the partially eclipsed moon to help visualize how eclipses occur. During this eclipse, the moon spent most of the time in totality (fully in the Earth’s shadow), so I tried to show how the last three moons are curved inwards from the partial eclipse and fully in the shadow. The last moon in the series was taken as the sun rose during the morning blue hour, which caused the purple/blue colour.
Last Total Lunar Eclipse Until 2025; I aligned the phases of the moon to illustrate the Earth’s shadow
My first time shooting a lunar eclipse (November 19, 2021)
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No problem! The purple arose due to the moon setting during the sunrise (the morning blue hour) so it picked up some more of the daylight colour