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15 April 2014

Blood moon over Kalispell

As midnight approached, the clouds thinned and parted, revealing a splendid lunar eclipse. Below, three images of the eclipse, two taken from my back porch, the other taken from a field adjacent to my backyard.

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The blood-red fully eclipsed moon and the bright star Spica.

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The penumbra takes a bite out of the moon.

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A 20-second exposure blew out the fully eclipsed moon. Spica is very close to the moon at the lower right, and Mars is blown out on the upper right. Taken with a 24mm lens on an APS-C DSLR.