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Tax Day Eclipse

            The full moon of April lies fully eclipsed in the Earth's shadow on a cold & snowy April morning in West Michigan.

The Full Moon of April is called the "Full Pink Moon". The grass pink or wild ground phlox is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. This year it is also the Paschal Full Moon; the first full moon of the spring season. 

About the image...

I had been waiting for this eclipse for a while, having seen my last one in 2008. Unfortunately it didn't look like the weather was going to cooperate. The day before we had temperatures in the high 60's with rain and thunderstorms, and the cold front went through Monday morning and dropped the temps into the 30's. And then it started snowing in the afternoon. 

I remained cautiously optimistic, and around 2.30am I could just barely see the moon through the clouds. I took a chance, packed up my cameras, and headed east to my astronomy club's observatory. When I got there, it was completely cloudy, but I went up and opened the dome and attached my camera to one of the telescopes anyway. 

Totality began just after 3.00am, and suddenly about 10 minutes later the clouds parted - I could easily seen the eclipsed moon, the star Spica nearby, and the planet Mars off to the right. I immediately started shooting, and took images at intervals - especially around mid-totality - until the clouds came in around 4.15am. That was fine, as totality ended about 10 minutes later.

I closed up, packed up, and went home. Images downloaded to the computer, quickly scanned for good ones, and here is one of the best. I've got a few wide-field ones I'll put up later.

(Note: I have no idea why the EXIF says I used a 50mm lens. That's the default that Canon has put in the software. I used a telescope as my lens for this image)

(Note 2: In a little over 10 hours this image has been viewed over 10,000 times. I am truly humbled. Even if it's not accurate - and those of us on Flickr for a while know - that quite a few people looking at this one image of mine is incredible.)

Taken in: United States / Michigan / Lowell (show map)

Taken on: April 15, 2014

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Camera: Canon EOS 7D, 10 sec, 50mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 7D
Exposure Time:	10
Focal Length:	50mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Spot
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
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