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Credit & Copyright: David Cortner
Explanation:
Happily, skies
over Connelly's Springs, North Carolina, USA
were not mostly cloudy, as forecast, on the evening of November 8.
In fact they were mostly clear early on, allowing photographer
David Cortner to record the evening's
scheduled
celestial entertainment, a
total lunar eclipse.
Cortner took telescopic pictures of the Moon every
eight minutes as it entered partial eclipse
around 6:30pm EST and progressed through
the reddish
total
eclipse phase while rising higher in the sky.
Near the end of the eclipse he also recorded a wide-angle view
in a long exposure, bringing out the
thickening clouds and a landscape silhouetted by still partially
eclipsed moonlight.
Later, the telescopic views were carefully combined along the Moon's
trail through the wide-angle image to create
this dramatic composite
eclipse sequence.
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