The January 20-21, 2019, eclipsed moon was near a famous deep-sky object, a star cluster called the Beehive, or M44. This star cluster is faint. To the eye, the moon’s light would have overwhelmed it. David Cortner wrote: “All I know to do to get both the moon and the stars around M44, an open cluster a few degrees away. This is a stack of 97 20-second exposures to maximize signal/noise, some at ISO 400 to retain some lunar detail and most at ISO 1600 to capture the starfield. Canon 6D, Nikkor 180mm F2.8, iOptron SkyTracker (original model).”View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Karl Diefenderfer in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, caught the eclipse at 12:22 a.m. on January 21, 2019. He wrote: “It’s an extra special treat of a lunar eclipse to be able to capture stars around a full moon. It was so worth braving subzero windchills.”View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Patrick Prokop in Savannah, Georgia, wrote: “A composite of photos that I took of the January 20, 2019, lunar eclipse from my backyard garden.”View at EarthSky Community Photos. | The total lunar eclipse of January 21, 2019 – 6:30 a.m. – over Meteora monasteries in Greece from Aimilianos Gkekas.View larger at EarthSky Community Photos. | Lunar eclipse from Weatherly, Pennsylvania, on January 21, 2019, at 12:05 a.m. from Tom Wildoner. Sky-Watcher Esprit 120mm ED, Canon 6D, single 10 second exposure, unguided.View larger at EarthSky Community Photos. | Marvelous time-lapse image of January 20-21, 2019, lunar eclipse, from Dennis Schoenfelder in Alamosa, Colorado. He wrote: “It was below zero so I set up the camera outside the front door and sat inside watching, I pop out occasionally to check things out. One frame every 3 minutes.”
Bottom line: Photos from the EarthSky community of the January 20-21, 2019, total eclipse of the moon.
Our Editor-in-Chief Deborah Byrd works to keep all the astronomy balls in the air between EarthSky's website, YouTube page and social media platforms. She's the primary editor of our popular daily newsletter and a frequent host of EarthSky livestreams. Deborah created the EarthSky radio series in 1991 and founded EarthSky.org in 1994. Prior to that, she had worked for the University of Texas McDonald Observatory since 1976, and created and produced their Star Date radio series. She has won a galaxy of awards from the broadcasting and science communities, including having an asteroid named 3505 Byrd in her honor. In 2020, she won the Education Prize from the American Astronomical Society, the largest organization of professional astronomers in North America. A science communicator and educator since 1976, Byrd believes in science as a force for good in the world and a vital tool for the 21st century. "Being an EarthSky editor is like hosting a big global party for cool nature-lovers," she says.
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