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A beautiful early morning sky show

By Patty Guerra
This image overlay of the phases of this morning's lunar eclipse, was captured using a Canon SL1 camera mounted on a tripod with a 6 second shutter, an aperture of F11, and an ISO between 200-800. A 75-300mm lens was used. To display the passage of time and the changing of the state of the moon, Gillespie, a UC Merced student, stayed up from 3:00am until approximately 6:00am, taking photos every 10-20min.
This image overlay of the phases of this morning's lunar eclipse, was captured using a Canon SL1 camera mounted on a tripod with a 6 second shutter, an aperture of F11, and an ISO between 200-800. A 75-300mm lens was used. To display the passage of time and the changing of the state of the moon, Gillespie, a UC Merced student, stayed up from 3:00am until approximately 6:00am, taking photos every 10-20min. Sierra Gillespie Sierra Gillespie

Moon watchers received quite a show early Wednesday morning when, for the first time in 35 years, a blue moon combined with a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse. The rare occurrence gave the moon a tinge of red hue – thus the name, blood moon. University of California at Merced studnet Sierra Gillespie took this image overlay of the phases of the lunar eclipse

This story was originally published January 31, 2018 at 3:49 PM with the headline "A beautiful early morning sky show."

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