Super Blood Wolf Moon -- 01/20/2019

It's been a while since I posted anything.  I haven't had enough of a collection to post.  Last night, with the lunar eclipse, I finally have something to post.
The news said the eclipse would start at 18 degrees above the horizon, but I was too far from East shores so I didn't think I'd see anything.  When I looked out just after dinner, I saw the first sliver of the eclipse!

As the moon got higher, it was not really red, so I was at first disappointed, although the moon was pretty big.

Waiting for a while more, I could see the color change to a kind of grey red.  It was quite amazing.  What's even more amazing, there was hardly any cloud in the sky!!

I read an article on how to take the lunar eclipse and so I set up my tripod with my 70-200mm lens and a shutter release.  I manually focused and just started clicking. It was so awesome there was no cloud covering.

I kept trying to find the peak of the red moon and kept shooting.  I manually set my iphone timer for every 5 minutes then it was 2 minutes to take a shot because the moon moving across my view quite fast.  I had the idea of doing an overlap of all the shots I took.  I wasn't sure what I'd get but I think the effects came out pretty cool!   Here's when it was getting out of the peak.

As it got out of earth's shadow, it got pretty bright.  I tried changing my shutter speed a few times to get some details.  It was good I had the manual shutter release. 

Then finally when the moon appeared out of earth's shadow and the eclipse was over.  

I merged with what I think was the peak with the last shot I took of the night.  I felt so blessed I was able to witness this event.  I shall never forget this experience.