Penumbral Lunar Eclipse 10th Jan 2020

[The Admiral]

I tried taking some pics of the almost-full Moon yesterday but I was fraught by the clouds. Tonight I was lucky, doubly so because there was only variable thin high cloud, and I caught the lunar eclipse, which I hadn't realised was taking place until shortly before I went outside . It was also an opportunity to try out my new camera lens. I've increased the contrast a tad in order to bring out the shadow gradient across the disk. At an effective FL of 280mm the Moon is quite small in the frame and I had to crop it down.

Lumix G80, 200mm with 1.4x TC, ISO200, 1/800th at f/4.

Ian

Edited January 10, 2020 by The Admiral

[Stu]

Nicely done sir!

[SteveNickolls]

Thanks for posting your capture. Pleased you had clear enough conditions.

Cheers,

Steve

[The Admiral]

The more I looked at it the more I wanted to tweak the processing . Here's a MkII version.

Thanks for looking.

Ian

[Davey-T]

Very nice Ian, clouded out here.

Dave

[The Admiral]

Thanks Dave. Broken cloud here now. Amazing how the weather co-operated for once, though not perfect but I'll take it!

Ian