A breath-taking shot of last night's Full Red Moon rising over Sydney during total lunar eclipse by Ethan Callaghan. 🌕✨ This is a real photograph captured using a technique called telephoto compression (or lens compression). Here’s how it works: A telephoto lens (long focal
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@AstronomyVibes Or sometimes it can be big. This was a shot I took in 2015 without compression rising East over Scarborough, Ontario
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@AstronomyVibes ||🌕🩸|| The #moon wears her crown—full, radiant, cloaked in crimson. As #Earth’s shadow kisses her face, may #Peace, wonder, and good fortune shine on all beneath her gaze. #LunarEclipse 🌕
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@AstronomyVibes You cannot shoot the moon while facing south at that location, plus by the time it reached the horizon in Sydney it was almost full again and the sun was mere minutes away. Sorry, no cigar.
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@AstronomyVibes Yeah nah. As someone who lives in Sydney and woke up to see the eclipse, the moon only got that colour way past midnight. For the moon to be at that angle, it would have to be before 7pm. Plus, as it was rising yesterday, it was its usual colour. So yeah, probably 2 pics overlap
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@AstronomyVibes Even if this was possible, it would take a telescope’s focal length to even come close to this compression Nice try. Signed a photographer.
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@AstronomyVibes I used 300 mm lens and it was nowhere near anything like this. I'm well aware of the effect but I don't think it is THAT pronounced. Maybe if you're nearing like 1000mm territory.
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@AstronomyVibes Two point focus can never be so precisely crystal clear when one has infinity as the focal length. Indeed a beautiful layered/ composite photograph
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@AstronomyVibes We don't know what to believe anymore. Thanks AI. This is what I got and it wasn't red.
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@AstronomyVibes Fake. When the eclipse occurred, it was in the Western sky. That photo is facing East. Also, it commenced in the early hours of the morning. Its peak was around 4am and the moon was high in the sky.
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