Half Eclipse

We can see the curvature of the Earth as the moon enters its shadow. The color in the shadow is a coppery red, but it is a thousandth of the brightness of the still-illuminated half.

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Nokomis Lake, Minneapolis
27 September 2015
Canon EOS 60Da on Televue-85
1/500 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400


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