{"id":12124,"date":"2019-01-24T06:05:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T12:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12124"},"modified":"2019-01-22T14:17:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T20:17:48","slug":"skywatch-friday-january-2019-lunar-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=12124","title":{"rendered":"Skywatch Friday &#8211; January 2019 Lunar Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This past weekend we had a stellar lunar event. It was a Full Moon, check, The January full moon is known as the Wolf Moon, check (also known as cold moon.&#8221; The moon was close to earth, so it was also a Super Moon because it was fractionally bigger (although I couldn&#8217;t tell) and we had a lunar eclipse going on and with the lunar eclipse the the moon turns a shade of red. Thus the Super Duper Blood Wolf Moon. Maybe we like our moons too much?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/23HSCkx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7900\/39855260253_cf8639df03.jpg\" alt=\"Full Wolf Moon pre eclipse hdr\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So here is the moon about an hour or so before anything starts happening.  I don&#8217;t use my &#8220;good&#8221; camera to shoot the moon. I have a Canon SX40 SuperZoom. I saw on youtube that with it you just put the camera on Auto setting and then zoom up the moon until it is a big part of the screen and then click. And you know what? It works. I don&#8217;t worry about settings and tripods, I just hold it in my hand and do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2cWCKrg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7908\/45906877925_34d0b10c9c.jpg\" alt=\"Full Wolf Moon partial eclipse beginninng  hdr IMG_2324-Edit\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here we are with the eclipse just starting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/Scnz21\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4849\/32946528278_0c9252d711.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2335\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And further almost to a complete eclipse and this is where my method really falls apart because there is not enough light for the auto settings to work. So the camera ends up with like a 1\/10th of a second shutter speed instead of 1\/200th like the photo above. So this is out of focus and I had to use some heavy duty editing to amplify the light that did come out. Still not too bad a pic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And a finale pic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>jjj<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-flickr wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/23K2A4e\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4904\/39868325083_b0fa6bb624.jpg\" alt=\"ONEOK Plaza River wider angle hdr_DSC0533-Edit\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I took my Nikon to work the other day because of Martin Luther King&#8217;s Day and at the end of the work day I used it to shoot a few shots of the western sky.  So that is looking west and includes the Arkansas River. Works much better than the iphone pics I generally post. I&#8217;m going to start carrying the Nikon around with me more.  It takes much better photos than the phone camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And that is about it this week! I am linking with <a href=\"https:\/\/skyley.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Skywatch Friday (opens in a new tab)\">Skywatch Friday<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend we had a stellar lunar event. It was a Full Moon, check, The January full moon is known as the Wolf Moon, check (also known as cold moon.&#8221; The moon was close to earth, so it was also a Super Moon because it was fractionally bigger (although I couldn&#8217;t tell) and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[987],"class_list":["post-12124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12125,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124\/revisions\/12125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}