Total Lunar Eclipse on May 26, 2021


Date & Time: May 26 2021, 21:04 JST(+0900)
HDR composite of 5 shots with 1/8 to 2sec exposed
with Nik Collection HDR Efex Pro2
Optical: VIXEN 20cm(7.9") VISAC (f=1800mm, F9.0)
Auto-guided with TAKAHASHI EM-200 Equatorial
Digital Camera: Nikon D810A
Location: Hiraiso, Hitachi-naka city, Ibaraki pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(7360×4912)
Device Size...FX format (36×24mm)
Sensitivity...ISO1600, White Balance...Daylight


Total lunar eclipse
on May 26, 2021
Saros seriesNo. 121, Member: 56 of 84
Maximum magnitude1.015
Start of Penumbral17:46.2 JST (+0900)
Start of Umbral18:44.6 JST (+0900)
Start of Totality20:09.4 JST (+0900)
Maximum eclipse20:18.7 JST (+0900)
End of Totality20:28.0 JST (+0900)
End of Umbral21:52.8 JST (+0900)
End of Penumbral22:51.2 JST (+0900)
On evening of May 26, 2021, we could observe the total lunar eclipse at Japan. In that day the moon positioned near the perigee in its orbit, the eclipse became a topic as the "Supermoon's eclipse". Unfortunately it was bad weather condition mainly western Japan, I could not appreciate the rare sky event sufficiently. This image shows you a transient eclipsed moon after the totality with a magnitude of about 69% captured somehow between the clouds.
  This image is displayed turning the celestial north direction upward.



Southern starlit skies during the total lunar eclipse (Jan 31, 2018)
Partial lunar eclipse on Nov 19, 2021 (Review)

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