By ANDY BENTLEY | 2026-09-03
Two Shadows Over a Lone Oak
On 08/28/2026 06:13 am by Miguel Gracia | Website | Los Barruecos, Cáceres, Spain
What makes this image interesting is the double shadow. Earth's shadow appears twice in the same frame: cast on the Moon across 30 frames from first contact to maximum, when it covered 93% of the disk and turned it copper, and again over the horizon, in the blue-grey band the same cone casts across our own atmosphere, crowned by the pink Belt of Venus. The two only coincide if the eclipse ends at dawn.
Sony A7 III. Sky-Watcher Evostar 72ED (420 mm) on a Star Adventurer mount for the lunar sequence. 50 mm lens on a fixed tripod for the landscape.
30 individual frames combined in Photoshop. The maximum-eclipse Moon is a blend of two exposures. The lunar sequence was placed on a dawn landscape from the same location and camera position, along the Moon's true path.