Blood Monster Moon
Image Credit &
Copyright:
Chirag Upreti
On May 26, the
Full Flower Moon
was caught in this single exposure as it
emerged from Earth's shadow
and morning twilight began to wash over
the western sky.
Posing close to the horizon near the end of totality,
an eclipsed lunar disk is framed against
bare oak trees at Pinnacles National Park
in central California.
The Earth's shadow isn't completely dark though.
Faintly suffused with sunlight scattered by the atmosphere, the
inner shadow gives the totally eclipsed moon a
reddened appearance
and the very dramatic popular moniker of a Blood Moon.
Still, the monstrous visage of a gnarled tree in
silhouette made this view of a
total lunar eclipse
even scarier.