I used two telescopes and thousands of photos to create an image capturing the motion of the moon against the stars. The trick was doing it while under Earth’s shadow during a lunar eclipse! [OC]
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![I used two telescopes and thousands of photos to create an image capturing the motion of the moon against the stars. The trick was doing it while under Earth's shadow during a lunar eclipse! [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/9n1nswmd1snf1-1229x1536.jpeg "I used two telescopes and thousands of photos to create an image capturing the motion of the moon against the stars. The trick was doing it while under Earth’s shadow during a lunar eclipse! [OC]")
I used two telescopes and thousands of photos to create an image capturing the motion of the moon against the stars. The trick was doing it while under Earth’s shadow during a lunar eclipse! [OC]
https://i.redd.it/9n1nswmd1snf1.jpeg
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Usually star trails show you Earth’s revolutions against the relatively stationary stars. Not here. For this image, I tracked the moon and allowed the stars to drift relative to Earth’s motion for the 4 hours of exposure, while taking thousands of photos I later combined. This shows the correct motion and arc of the moon relative to these stars, a phenomenon I’ve never quite seen captured like this.
There’s actually a lunar eclipse happening right now, but this photo was captured March of this year, as Earth is currently preventing me from watching the current eclipse!
Nice shot. What was the full set up, integration and post processing?
You mind if I use this beauty as a phone wallpaper?