2019 Lunar Eclipse

Below is a time-lapse movie of the lunar eclipse that occurred on 20 January 2019. I started the video capture at about 8:30 PM MST and stopped at about midnight. I captured a frame at 1 minute intervals over the course of almost 4 hours to create this approximately 2 minute video. Because the moon went from very bright to very dark and back to very bright, I had to increase the camera exposure time from 1/12000 sec at the start of the eclipse to 1/60 sec during totality. Then, as the moon began to pass out of the earth’s shadow, the exposure had to decreased back to 1/12000 sec as the moon brightened. At one point during the evening the telescope got nudged and the moon went off-center but I was able to recover. We didn’t see much color in the moon during the eclipse, perhaps a slight coppery color but it was mostly just an ashen gray. There were some high thin cirrus clouds in the area and that may have had an effect.