The first image was taken a minute or two before the start of the umbral phase of the eclipse. A section of the Moon is in shadow but not completely dark. The second image is at the peak of this eclipse and a portion of the Moon is in complete darkness, covered by the umbral shadow.
It was a good night at the River Ridge Observatory. Cool but not too cold, clear skies, slight breeze. I got a late start after attending a star party earlier. My first images were just after midnight. I stayed until after 5AM. I considered shooting the sunrise on the way home but I was 30 minutes too early for that and I had been up for 26 hours except for three or four short naps.
Here is why you keep trying. It was lightly sprinkling when I left the house to shoot the sunrise at Vista Point for the fourth time in two weeks. I thought it might be a lost cause but as Gretzky said, you miss 100% of the shots you don’t try for.
For the time lapse, I exposed to the left at the beginning to avoid blowing it out later. Each frame was five seconds apart, sped up to ten frames per second. There was a double rainbow too but those shots didn’t turn out.
