The Blood Moon made its appearance high in the Driggs sky this morning and I was up to shoot it. I’d been watching the moons light shine into our bedroom through half-awake eyes and a little after 0400 it started fading.
I went out to the front porch, mounted my camera on the tripod, zoomed in and began recording. I let it run for twelve minutes while I made my coffee then my video editor stripped out the sound of the creek, and speeded it up.
It’s a very cool video and I recommend you give it a watch. There are some dark artifacts passing over the moon which I have no explanation for.
Here’s a higher definition view.
The dark things on the moon look like clouds slowly passing in front of the moon.
Nope, it was a perfectly clear sky, not a single cloud anywhere. We have an amazing sky here, the backdrop of a trillion vivid stars would highlight any stray clouds. You can’t see stars here because I had to tweak the video to get background noise out, but the original has the same artifacts, even clearer.