Saw Its Shadow

Saturday, February 11, 2017


The full moon emerged from a fast moving bank of clouds in the east sky from Brentwood Drive NE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at 7:20 pm CST on Friday, February 10, 2017, to reveal its unobstructed face, complete with a penumbral eclipse. A penumbral eclipse is created when the Earth's outer shadow (not the main one) reaches the moon. The lightly-shadowed upper left of the moon seen in the image above is that shadow. The eclipse began at 5:33 pm, reached maximum eclipse at 6:43 pm, and ended at 8:53 pm. This image was a hand-held capture at 1/500 second, f/6.3, 250 ISO, and 300mm focal length. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.

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