Full Lunar Eclipse - April 15, 2014
Various presentations of all phases of the April 2014 total lunar eclipse.
Location: Grapevine, Texas
Temperature: 40 degrees F
Equipment: 6" Takahashi TOA-150 apochromatic refractor on a Software Bisque Paramount ME
Camera: Canon T2i DSLR and SBIG STL-11000M (full moon shot just prior to eclipse start)
Exposure Info: Various shutter speeds from 1/2000 to 3.2 seconds, ISO 200-800
Processing: Debayer, Multiscale Median Transform, Histogram Transform, Local Histogram Enhancement, ACDNR, and 16-bit TIFF conversion in PixInsight. Saturation, Level/Curves, noise removal (Noel Carboni actions), rotation, and compositing in Photoshop CS6.
- What it is
- The total lunar eclipse of April 15, 2014, was the first of a "lunar tetrad" — four consecutive total lunar eclipses in 2014–2015. During totality the Moon took on a coppery-red "Blood Moon" color from sunlight refracted through Earth's atmosphere.
- Constellation
- N/A — event; the Moon was in Virgo that night
- Distance
- Moon ~384,400 km
- Apparent magnitude
- Eclipse magnitude ~1.29 (maximum)
- Angular size
- N/A — full event spanned ~3.5 hours
- Coordinates
- N/A
This summary was generated by an AI assistant from general astronomical references, not from Jay's own notes on this specific image. Treat every detail above as a starting point for research, not settled fact.