Red Moon over the Rockies

The total eclipse of the Moon over a peak of the Continental Divide at the Crowsnest Pass area of the Canadian Rocky Mountains in southwest Alberta, before dawn on the morning of January 31, 2018. The Moon was setting into the west.

The Moon is just south (left) of the large binocular star cluster, M44, or the Beehive Cluster in Cancer.

Shortly after this, clouds wafting off the peak engulfed the Moon and I lost sight of it. However, this was at 6:44 am MST, about 20 minutes before the end of totality.

This was a much publicized Blue Moon and Supermoon eclipse.

This is a blend of a 15-second exposure for the sky and foreground, and a shorter 1-second exposure for the Moon to prevent its disk from being overexposed, despite it being dim and deep red in totality. Both were at f/2.8 with the 50mm Sigma lens on the Canon 6D MkII at ISO 1600. Untracked, so the stars are trailed.

Credit to: Blue Planet Archive / VWPics / Alan Dyer

Image dimensions: 5400x3600

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