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 begins | 1:09 AM |
| Full Eclipse begins | 2:26 AM |
| Maximum Eclipse | 2:58 AM |
| Full Eclipse ends | 3:31 AM |
| Partial Eclipse ends | 4:47 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
Great shots of the eclipse! Did you manage to adjust the camera settings to capture the dimmer phases later?
Thanks! Unfortunately, at 2:30 AM I was not thinking clearly and never remembered to adjust the ISO to see the total eclipse in the viewfinder.