Lunar Eclipse – March 14, 2025

On Friday March 14 we experienced a total lunar eclipse and the weather cooperated. The night sky was very clear so I set up to photograph the eclipse.

These were the times associated with the eclipse:
Partial Eclipse begins1:09 AM
Full Eclipse begins2:26 AM
Maximum Eclipse2:58 AM
Full Eclipse ends3:31 AM
Partial Eclipse ends4:47 AM

I captured a photo of the full moon a few minutes before the eclipse began and then captured additional photos at about 15 minute intervals.

When the total eclipse began I could see it clearly visually but I could not find it with the camera so I gave up and went back to bed. Later I realized that the total eclipse was so dim that the camera could not detect it without increasing its sensitivity. I had photographed all the initial stages at ISO 100 and then 200 and I was planning to increase it to about 6400 during totality but totally forgot – my bad!

Lunar Eclipse Gallery

The featured image is a composite of six separate images which I combined using Adobe Fireworks software. The rest of the gallery images are the ones I used to create the composite.

Technical Information

1:02 AM

  • Date: 3/14/25
  • Time: 1:02 AM
  • Camera: Canon EOS R7
  • Lens: Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8DG OS HSM with Sigma 2x Teleconverter
  • Settings:
    • Lens: 400 mm, f/11
    • ISO: 100
    • Shutter: 1/100 sec
  • Cropped image is 3261 x 3261 px

1:20 AM

    • Date: 3/14/25
    • Time: 1:20 AM
    • Camera: Canon EOS R7
    • Lens: Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8DG OS HSM with Sigma 2x Teleconverter
    • Settings:
      • Lens: 400 mm, f/11
      • ISO: 100
      • Shutter: 1/320 sec
    • Cropped image is 3259 x 3259 px

1:33 AM

  • Date: 3/14/25
  • Time: 1:33 AM
  • Camera: Canon EOS R7
  • Lens: Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8DG OS HSM with Sigma 2x Teleconverter
  • Settings:
    • Lens: 400 mm, f/11
    • ISO: 100
    • Shutter: 1/100 sec
  • Cropped image is 3259 x 3259 px

1:47 AM

    • Date: 3/14/25
    • Time: 1:47 AM
    • Camera: Canon EOS R7
    • Lens: Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8DG OS HSM with Sigma 2x Teleconverter
    • Settings:
      • Lens: 400 mm, f/8
      • ISO: 100
      • Shutter: 1/100 sec
    • Cropped image is 3261 x 3261 px

2:03 AM

  • Date: 3/14/25
  • Time: 2:03 AM
  • Camera: Canon EOS R7
  • Lens: Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8DG OS HSM with Sigma 2x Teleconverter
  • Settings:
    • Lens: 400 mm, f/8
    • ISO: 100
    • Shutter: 1/60 sec
  • Cropped image is 3262 x 3262 px

2:17 AM

    • Date: 3/14/25
    • Time: 2:17 AM
    • Camera: Canon EOS R7
    • Lens: Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8DG OS HSM with Sigma 2x Teleconverter
    • Settings:
      • Lens: 400 mm, f/8
      • ISO: 200
      • Shutter: 1/60 sec
    • Cropped image is 3258 x 3258 px

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