Captured on my Olympus DSLR camera using a tripod during a partial blood moon lunar eclipse on 19th November 2021 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2021_lunar_eclipse). Luckily, there was a tall building nearby with an unobstructed view of the moon and the clouds that night miraculously decided to have fun in another portion of the sky or give me just the right moment where I could capture the next phase of the eclipse.

Images captured with low ISO (e.g. <100) settings (to minimize noise) and exposure times of 1/60 to 3.2 s that allowed me to capture the moon illuminated by the sun (when it looks gray) and the portion being eclipsed (red, the bright light on the left side of the moon is the overexposed sun-exposed portion).

This image is a composite, created in Photoshop, of several different shots taken throughout the night. The pictures were not adjusted, I used blending modes and layer masks to allow overlay of each picture close to one another without needing to crop the photos, which would have led to sharp edges between moon pictures and a less anesthetically pleasing photo.

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