[HN Gopher] How I Shot This Lunar Eclipse Sequence in Camera, on...
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       How I Shot This Lunar Eclipse Sequence in Camera, on Film
        
       Author : Etheryte
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2021-05-31 10:00 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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       | nateroling wrote:
       | Absolutely gorgeous. I'm a little confused about the composition.
       | Is that the path the moon takes across the sky? I would have
       | assumed a straight line or simple curve...
        
         | dogma1138 wrote:
         | The earth is rotating too and it's tilted so depending on the
         | latitude you won't have a simple elliptic path when you expose
         | over days or even weeks not minutes.
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         | If you haven't noticed the moon is in different phases and also
         | possible captured during different times of the day.
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         | So you'll always get something that looks like this
         | https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/36657/how-to-e...
        
         | wearywanderer wrote:
         | If you continue watching the moon's position in the sky through
         | full lunar months, the path is sinusoidal.
        
         | eyan wrote:
         | Printed template, multiple exposures. There are images of the
         | template around middle of TFA.
        
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