Total Lunar Eclipse from Sydney

The reddened shadow of planet Earth plays one day of the lunar disk in this telescopic image taken on Could perhaps 26 shut to Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. On that crisp, sure autumn night a Perigee Chunky Moon slid through the northern edge of the shadow’s darkish central umbra. Short for a lunar eclipse, its total portion lasted only about 14 minutes. The Earth’s shadow became once no longer fully darkish even though. As an different it became once suffused with a faint purple 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 additionally reveals the broad sequence of brightness diversifications within Earth’s umbral shadow against a faint background of stars.