Last year we were treated to a solar spectacle we haven’t seen since 2017, and this year, to kick off Spring, we got a great lunar show as the moon was totally eclipsed by Earth’s shadow. The DC area lucked out, with a nearby storm system going wide, leaving the skies clear for the entire red totality. It’s been a few years since I saw a Blood Moon eclipse, and this one looked like a cataract peering through the black curtain of night sky, or at maximum totality as though Mars had entered our orbit for the night.
I used a slightly different capture process for this photo than I typically do for astrophotography, which allowed me to capture more detail at a much higher ISO than I would normally shoot, and allow me to avoid the noise normally found natively at those ISOs. The result is this image, which is a single exposure with the stars visible behind the moon, not a composite or blend of multiple exposures.
