I normally love to plan my photos and I would have liked to plan a cool shot with yesterday’s moon eclipse. However, when I planned my trip to Kyrgyzstan I didn’t realize I would be there with the lunar eclipse of 2018 (bad planning, I know). I am currently staying at the capital of Kyrgyzstan Bishkek. Without a plan, I just went out to a random place out of the city to see the blood moon. I brought my 400mm but I couldn’t really find a cool composition or foreground because the moon was so high up In the sky. The full eclipse was visible at 1:30 at night here.
What I did notice though, was the extremely bright star just below the moon when the eclipse happened. It was Mars. Also, because of the darkness of the eclipse, the milky way was easily visibile. So I decided to do something different than all the crazy telezoom shots of the moon eclipse. This is a shot at 15mm, where you can see the Lunar eclipse (red moon), the extremely bright star Mars (orange) and the milky way next to hit. I asked my girlfriend to pose in the middle. It was a beautiful sight!
Photo is a single exposure with the Sony A7RIII and Laowa 15mm at f/2, 20s, ISO 3200
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Gazing the 2018 Lunar Eclipse
