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Nice to get out for a bit of 'dark relief' and breathe the fresh air.
One thing that never changes is urban light pollution affecting the sky from up to 20 miles away etc. I tried to keep this as near to what I viewed with my own eyes at the time. Although the sensor can see far better than me! Small manual stack strips for pano
The Moon in total eclipse, on January 20, 2019, in a multiple exposure composite showing the Moon moving from right to left (west to east) through the Earth’s umbral shadow.
The middle image is from just after mid-totality at about 10:21 pm MST, while the partial eclipse shadow ingress image set is from 9:15 pm and the partial eclipse shadow egress image set is from 11:15 pm.
I added in two images at either end taken at the very start and end of the umbral eclipse to add a more complete sequence of the lunar motion. However, on those images the lunar disk is darkened mostly by the penumbra.
All images are with the Canon 6D MkII on a Fornax Lightrack II tracking mount to follow the stars at the sidereal rate, to keep the stars fixed and let the Moon drift from right to left against the background stars.
Thus, the Moon images are where they were in relation to the background stars and therefore show the Moon’s motion through the umbral shadow, with the shadow edge on the partially eclipsed Moons defining the shape of the large and circular umbral shadow of the Earth, approximately three times bigger than the Moon. At this eclipse the Moon moved across the north edge of the umbral so we are seeing the top of the shadow circle drawn here in the sky.
At this eclipse the Moon was also shining beside the Beehive star cluster, Messier 44, in Cancer. This was the unique sight at this eclipse as it can happen only during total lunar eclipses that occur in late January. There was one on January 31, 2018 but the next will not be until 2037.
The central image of totality includes a 1-minute exposure at ISO 800 and f/2.8 for the stars, which inevitably overexposes the Moon. So I’ve blended in three shorter exposures for the Moon, taken immediately after the long “star” exposure. These were 8, 4 and 2 seconds at ISO 400 and f/4, and all with the Canon 200mm telephoto.
The two partial eclipse phases are stacks of 7 exposures each, from very short for the bright portion of the lunar disk, to long for the shadowed portion. They are blended with luminosity masks created with ADP Pro v3 panel for Photoshop, but modified with feathering to blend the images smoothly. This sort of “HDR” blending is necessary to depict the eclipsed Moon as your eye saw it, as while the eye can encompass the great range of brightness across the eclipsed Moon’s disk the camera cannot. Even the totality image is a blend of exposures, as the top part of the Moon was quite bright at this eclipse due to the Moon’s path across the northern half of the umbra.
The timing of the partial eclipse images about 1 hour before and 1 hour after the central image places the lunar disk against the stars so those disks don’t overlap. But ….
….The images aren’t quite symmetrical for shadow placement and phase, because as luck would have it, the drive of the Fornax tracker, which has a limited travel, decided to run out of travel right at mid-eclipse at 10:15. All is needed was another 10 minutes of travel, but no!
This required resetting the drive, then reaiming and reframing the camera right at the worst time, and taking time. So the timing and orientation of the latter images were compromised, requiring a little fudging on my part to place the egress set. However, the overall placement of the Moon and shadow is close to reality and the composite serves to illustrate the concept.
These were taken from a site near Lloydminster, in Saskatchewan, where skies proved clear all night, better than the prospects back at home 500 km farther south in Alberta. It was worth the drive north the day before the eclipse.
Thirle Door and the Stacks of Duncansby, Duncansby Head at dawn.
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Drawn for the USk Flickr "Stacks" weekly theme, www.flickr.com/groups/urbansketches/discuss/7215766123299....
This is what my office looked like at the end of the day today. Stacks on top of other stacks.
I've also got stacks of automatic variables and heaps of memory, but they don't show up in this drawing.
Drawn November 25, 2015
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
ODC-Heaps, Stacks, Layers
It's the weekend and I'm back in the kitchen making food for next week. I made 4 dozen of these Crunchy Peanut butter Cookies. I always leave a tin out in the breezeway so we can grab one on the way out. I also give one or two to the mailman who is very overworked. I gave him a cookie once and he thanked me profusely saying "this is my dinner!"
Initiate this little stacked vignette to be a community build that we can stacked together in a Brick Con exhibition.
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30 frames stacked in Deep Sky Stacker.
Two hours of waiting to see the final image was a long wait, but it looks like the way I'll do all my moon shots from now on. I should have been stacking all my moon shots.
This is a close-up HDR photo of the framed details on metal chairs stacked up in a corner in the Sip Cafe in Yarmouth, N.S..
The Stacks of Duncansby, Duncansby Head at sunset.
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Taking 1 sec interval frames from a Nikon P950 video clip and stacked and lightened them in Photoshop shows expanding sun lit contrail and jet with sun glint. The video used for this image: www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/50695419596/in/datepos....
I thought this image turned out rather cool and imaginative.
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The sea stacks of Reynisdrangar in Iceland. I took shelter in the cave entrance for this composition whilst the rain and wind soaked... everything.
Olympus OM D E-M10 II, Olympus M 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 EZ, processed in Lightroom.
AA730 CLT-LHR - Boeing 777-223(ER) N783AN
You might perhaps notice what could be taken for a dust mark in the distance on the right, clear against the cloud. Well, it isn't, it's another 'plane in the queue to land.
Pictures of the Thunderbirds flight demonstration team at the 2021 Salinas air show in Central California
It's nearly 40 miles of descending 1.25% grade from Mountainair to Belen, NM on the Belen Cutoff. Near the middle of it, the tracks traverse the narrow confines of Abo Canyon to squeeze through the Manzano Mountains.
Here, a short stack train rolls westward at Scholle as it prepares to enter Abo Canyon behind me. Scholle was the end of double-track from the east prior to BNSF opening a second main through the canyon in 2011.
Q LPCLAC6 17A (Quality Intermodal- Logistics Park Chicago [Elwood, IL] to Los Angeles, CA)
BNSF ET44C4 #3802
BNSF Dash 9-44CW #1022
Scholle, NM
May 18th, 2025
The lower unit of Double Stack Ruin with it's spiffy new heavy-duty fence. Must have been no picnic hauling that all the way in here.
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Up one canyon and down another on Comb Ridge
Building De Rotterdam in construction. Rotterdam harbour area. By OMA architects / Rem Koolhaas.
More of this building at
This week's FlickrFriday theme is: #Stacked
Le thème de ce FlickrFriday est: #Empilés
O tema desta FlickrFriday é: #Empilhados
本次 FlickrFriday 主題: #堆叠式
FlickrFriday-Thema der Woche: #Gestapelt
El tema de FlickrFriday es: #Apilado
Weather was gorgeous, windy but perfect. First try at stacking and the wind didn't help. Desert turning it's beautiful shade of brown and all the wildflowers are too.
Thanks for your comments and lookies