All of Earth's Sunrises & Sunsets
Two amazing things happened tonight. There was a fantastic full lunar eclipse tonight, and there was clear weather in Wisconsin during a fantastic astronomical event! Amazing!
Well, I drove out to some dark fields in the -10°F (update: according to today's weather, record temperatures for the day of around -25°F were recorded that night... brr!!) weather to get these shots. After some time in the cold, my batteries' energy was completely sapped, so I jumped back into the truck and drove a bit further. The batteries re-warmed just in time to catch the moon moving into the umbral shadow. This is from a few minutes after total eclipse occurred.
I did have fantastic plans to merge a bunch of my images from different stages of eclipse, but the cold killing my batteries kind of ended that one. Maybe in 2010.
All of Earth's Sunrises & Sunsets
Two amazing things happened tonight. There was a fantastic full lunar eclipse tonight, and there was clear weather in Wisconsin during a fantastic astronomical event! Amazing!
Well, I drove out to some dark fields in the -10°F (update: according to today's weather, record temperatures for the day of around -25°F were recorded that night... brr!!) weather to get these shots. After some time in the cold, my batteries' energy was completely sapped, so I jumped back into the truck and drove a bit further. The batteries re-warmed just in time to catch the moon moving into the umbral shadow. This is from a few minutes after total eclipse occurred.
I did have fantastic plans to merge a bunch of my images from different stages of eclipse, but the cold killing my batteries kind of ended that one. Maybe in 2010.