<\/div>\nOn the morning of 16 May the Moon will set around 05:00 BST (04:00 UT), just after the point of greatest eclipse and during morning twilight.<\/p>\n
The first part of the eclipse begins at 02:32 BST (01:32 UT) as the Moon moves into Earth\u2019s weak penumbral shadow, but this is hard to see visually.<\/span><\/p>\nAs the Moon progresses <\/span>into the penumbral shadow, heading towards the outer edge <\/span>of the umbral shadow, so the presence of the penumbra becomes more noticeable as a dark shading.<\/p>\nThe geometry of this eclipse means the line of approach towards the umbral shadow is optimised.<\/p>\n
Credit: Pete Lawrence<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nRecording the whole lunar eclipse<\/strong><\/h2>\nA good challenge is to record the entire lunar eclipse from just before the penumbral insertion, in the form of an animation.<\/p>\n
For this to work, you\u2019ll need a photographic setup, which can record the Moon as a demonstrable disc.<\/p>\n
A 500mm-plus focal length will deliver this. Coupling your camera to a telescope with a focal length around the 1,000mm mark will be ideal.<\/p>\n
Aim to take photos of the eclipse every 5\u201310 minutes over its duration.<\/p>\n
Aim to take photos of the Moon every 5\u201310 minutes during the eclipse to create your animation. Credit: Pete Lawrence<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nThe brightening dawn twilight will need careful exposure adjustment to avoid overexposing the sky.<\/p>\n
This is important when totality arrives, as the Moon will be darker and the sky will brighten.<\/p>\n
Overexposing the dark umbral shadow brings out its colour at the expense of overexposing the penumbral eclipsed region.<\/p>\n
Once the event has concluded, load each image into a layer-based editor, in time order, with the earliest image at the lowest level.<\/p>\n
Lunar eclipse of 28 September 2015 by Sarah & Simon Fisher, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, UK. Equipment: Canon 600D attached to Maksutov 127mm telescope, Prime Focus single shots<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nWorking up from the bottom of the stack, adjust the position of each lunar disc so that the high contrast features align.<\/p>\n
Next, it pays to check the edge space around each image in case the alignment process has brought the border of the image frame into view, creating a gap at the image frame\u2019s edge.<\/p>\n
If this is the case, fill in the gap. As a clean-up process, crop the image to chop off any excess bits, which may have become dragged off beyond the image border.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a good idea to save this image stack and keep it to one side, opening a copy of it for further work.<\/p>\n
In this way, if you do things to the image frames, for example by adjusting their brightness and contrast, <\/span>and get it wrong you can always scrap the edit and go back.<\/p>\nIf the original stack has a large frame size, you may need to reduce this for animation purposes.<\/p>\n
Lunar eclipse of 28 September 2015 by Susan Snow, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham, UK. Equipment: Canon EOS 600D with a 300mm lens.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nA smaller frame will work well on a computer screen, produce a smaller, more transportable animation file and play in a smoother fashion.<\/p>\n
Keeping the large original safe will allow you to revisit it if the need arises.<\/span><\/p>\nOnce you\u2019ve created the master frame stack, you can make a \u2018flick-book\u2019 animation.<\/span><\/p>\nIn our \u2018Step by Step\u2019 <\/span>guide we look at using the freeware PIPP application (bit.ly\/3x2vCJ3) for this task.<\/p>\nIf it works, you\u2019ll have an impressive animation to share with others.<\/p>\n
Equipment<\/strong><\/h2>\nColour photographic camera (eg DSLR or MILC)<\/li>\n 500mm or greater lens<\/li>\n<\/ul>Record a video animation of the lunar eclipse, step-by-step<\/strong><\/h2><\/body><\/html>\nBy Pete Lawrence Published: Wednesday, 04 May 2022 at 12:00 am Have you ever tried creating an animation showing every phase of a lunar eclipse? The 16 May total lunar eclipse will be a good opportunity to do just that, and in this article we\u2019re going to show you how. But you could use this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":31717,"template":"","categories":[34],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"4"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/how-to-create-a-video-animation-of-a-lunar-eclipse-scaled.jpg",2560,1828,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/how-to-create-a-video-animation-of-a-lunar-eclipse-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/how-to-create-a-video-animation-of-a-lunar-eclipse-300x214.jpg",300,214,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/how-to-create-a-video-animation-of-a-lunar-eclipse-768x549.jpg",768,549,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/how-to-create-a-video-animation-of-a-lunar-eclipse-1024x731.jpg",800,571,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/how-to-create-a-video-animation-of-a-lunar-eclipse-1536x1097.jpg",1536,1097,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2022\/05\/how-to-create-a-video-animation-of-a-lunar-eclipse-2048x1463.jpg",2048,1463,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Pete Lawrence Published: Wednesday, 04 May 2022 at 12:00 am Have you ever tried creating an animation showing every phase of a lunar eclipse? The 16 May total lunar eclipse will be a good opportunity to do just that, and in this article we\u2019re going to show you how. But you could use this…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/31716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcskyatnight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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