Posted on May 28, 2021

APOD: 2021 May 28 - Total Lunar Eclipse from Sydney

Maj William W. 'Bill' Price

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Good Red Friday morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Total Lunar Eclipse from Sydney." Australia, that is. As you can see, the Land Down Under had a ringside seat for Wednesday's eclipse. The Barden Ridge Observatory is located outside of Sydney along the top of the Woronora River valley, with the Royal National Park to the east, and Holsworthy Reserve and Heathcote National parks to the south. Today's APOD was taken with a Canon EOSRa DSLR fitted to an Astro-Physics 130-GTX refractor. Six bracketed exposures from 8 seconds to 1/160th seconds were combined for the final HDR composite image. I like how the stars were also captured in the final product. Bravo!

APOD: 2021 May 28 - Total Lunar Eclipse from Sydney

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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Friday, May 28, 2021 entitled "Total Lunar Eclipse from Sydney, Australia."
Image: Total Lunar Eclipse from Sydney - Image Credit & Copyright - Peter Ward (Barden Ridge Observatory)

APOD Background'
"Explanation: The reddened shadow of planet Earth plays across the lunar disk in this telescopic image taken on May 26 near Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On that crisp, clear autumn night a Perigee Full Moon slid through the northern edge of the shadow's dark central umbra. Short for a lunar eclipse, its total phase lasted only about 14 minutes. The Earth's shadow was not completely dark though. Instead it was suffused with a faint red light from all the planet's sunsets and sunrises seen from the perspective of an eclipsed Moon, the reddened sunlight scattered by Earth's atmosphere. The HDR composite of 6 exposures also shows the wide range of brightness variations within Earth's umbral shadow against a faint background of stars.'

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