02 Oct Eclipse in composite

On Monday, I published Robert Westbrook’s beautiful photo of the eclipse as seen from his driveway in Port Hawkesbury. After taking more than 200 photos that night, Robert Photoshopped 21 of them into this composite image showing the Moon’s track over the Strait of Canso and through the Earth’s shadow:

For the photographically inclined, Robert offers these details:

I took around 220 close-up shots of the Moon during its traversal of Earth’s shadow using the tracking scope…. [W]hen the eclipse was over, I went down to the waterfront at 2am and shot the area where the Moon had been in the sky for the background, and very accurately plotted where the Moon would have been at each phase of its eclipse. I pasted in each image and adjusted brightness, composited in the red parts of the Moon, and this is the result.

The key, apparently, is the tracking scope, not to mention an above-average knowledge of astronomy. The things a person finds in Port Hawkesbury.