![]() The best captures of a full moon rising and/or a lunar eclipse close to the horizon are those that have creative compositions. Start-off with your camera set to ISO 100, f/10 and 1/125sec, but the exact settings will depend upon your lens and the quickly changing light. Here’s something the entire world can do – as wherever you are in the world, there will be a full moon for you to photograph. (Image credit: Grant Faint via Getty Images) The best wide lenses for astrophotography How to photograph the full moon.Bracketing either side of your target exposure is the way to go. It’s all a trade-off between ISO and shutter speed, but a Lunar Eclipse Exposure Calculator will help you figure out base settings for your lens. With a shutter delay set, and shooting in RAW, during totality keep the aperture as wide as possible (a low f-number), begin with ISO 800 and use a fast shutter speed – about 1/100sec – to keep the shot sharp. An alternative that will work for all lenses is to use your camera’s LCD screen to look at part of the Moon zoomed-in, and then to focus until sharp (either manually or using auto-focus, though if the latter you must then switch to manual mode to prevent your camera from refocusing for your next shot). Using infinity focus might work, depending on your lens. Alternatively a bridge camera, with its built-in superzoom will do the trick. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani (Image credit: NASA)įor a close-up of the Moon you’ll need a DSLR or mirrorless camera with a 300mm telephoto lens on a tripod – but ideally one that is at least 600mm long. The effects on Earth’s atmosphere of t he Tongan volcano in January 2022 is also likely to make this a relatively darker lunar eclipse.Ī perigee full moon, or supermoon, is seen behind the Washington Monument during a total lunar eclipse on Sunday, September 27, 2015, in Washington, DC. Because it’s traveling through the darkest part of Earth’s shadow the moon is expected to be a dark red. The result, of course, is a ‘Blood Moon’, though in truth it’s more of a copper-reddish color. Short-wavelength blue light from the Sun tends to hit particles in Earth’s atmosphere whereas longer-wavelength red and orange light mostly travels right through. When that happens – something that can take hours – the only light that can reach the lunar surface has first been filtered through Earth’s atmosphere. The latter sees its near-side 100%-lit by the Sun, but just occasionally it travels precisely through the middle of Earth’s dark circular shadow in space. The Moon orbits Earth every 27 days, during which time it passes roughly between the Earth and the Sun (an invisible New Moon) and, 14 days later, moves to the other side of Earth to the Sun (a full Moon). Also called a ‘Blood Moon’, a lunar eclipse is caused by a full Moon passing through Earth’s shadow in space.
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