Date/Time
Start: 2025.03.13 10:10PM PDT
Finish: 2025.03.13 11:40PM PDT
Location: 3000-block Jackson St, Victoria, BC, Canada
Observers: myself
Full Moon – 14.2 days old
Conditions
- Temp: 4.5°C; Dew Point: 2°C; Rel. Humidity: 81%
- No wind
- Stability: 3/5 ; Seeing: 3/5; Darkness: 2 mag
- Cloud cover
- 10:15PM – Cloudy skies with breaks. Shooting through thin cloud.
- 10:40PM – Cloud cleared
- 11:45PM – Solid cloud bank
Observations
I was working against cloud to photograph this eclipse, so my photos lack sharpness and detail. During totality I had to push the ISO on my camera to 51,200, so the last two images are noisy and lack colour depth. At least I was out there and observed the first half of this apparition before I had to flee the rain and hail!
A lunar eclipse appears red because the atmosphere refracts light around the Earth up to the Moon, scattering all but the red spectrum. There is also a visible blue band, revealing how some of the light passes through the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere where red is absorbed and makes the passing light ray bluer. My photo taken during the late partial phase clearly shows this blue colour.
Equipment & parameters used
- Canon R5 Mirrorless camera
- Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L zoom lens + 2x RF Extender operating at 1,000mm, f/14
- Exposures: 1/2000 to 1/100 sec, ISO 2500 to 51200
- Manfrotto 055 tripod – no tracking
Photos
- Exposures: 1/2000 to 1/100 sec, ISO 2500 to 51200, f/14
- Photos: 2025JCR5BC6A4468-4500
Timing for Victoria
- 8:57pm – Penumbral Eclipse begins
- 10:09pm – Partial Eclipse begins
- 11:26pm – Total Eclipse begins
- 11:58pm – Maximum Eclipse
- 12:31am – Total Eclipse ends
- 1:47am – Partial Eclipse ends
- 3:00am – Penumbral Eclipse ends
