Earth’s shadow cover the moon: Top images of the lunar eclipse
Mar 19, 2025
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Soumyadeep Mukherjee is an award-winning astrophotographer from India. He has a doctorate degree in Linguistics. His work extends to the sub-genres of nightscape, deep sky, solar, lunar and optical phenomenon photography. He is also a photography educator and has conducted numerous workshops. His works have appeared in over 40 books & magazines including Astronomy, BBC Sky at Night, Sky & Telescope among others, and in various websites including National Geographic, NASA, Forbes. He was the first Indian to win “Astronomy Photographer of the Year” award in a major category.
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On the night of 13-14th March, Earth came in between the Sun and the Moon. As a result, for a brief period, Earth’s shadow completely covered the moon. And this led to a total lunar eclipse. The total eclipse was visible from North America and Parts of South America. A lunar eclipse is a spectacle, whether looking at it with the naked eye, or a binocular or photographing it with your camera. This article presents some of the amazing images astrophotographers captured during the eclipse.
Eclipse from South America
Astrophotographer Bray Falls captured this image of the total lunar eclipse from Chile.
The total lunar eclipse last night from Chile! pic.twitter.com/MGVZSbAOrn
— Bray Falls (@astrofalls) March 15, 2025
Eclipse Sequence
Photographer John Kraus captured a wide-filed view of the complete eclipse sequence from Florida.
Lunar eclipse over Florida
— John Kraus (@johnkrausphotos) March 14, 2025
🌕🌖🌗🌘🌴🌒🌓🌓🌔 pic.twitter.com/W6JaGUCiGW
Eclipse at twilight
Max Inwood captured the sequence of the lunar eclipse from Canada at twilight with a 135mm lens.
Eclipse through aurora
Astrophotographer Dan Zafra captured the total lunar eclipse through the aurora. This “once-in-a-lifetime” image was captured from Alaska during an auroral substorm.
Chinese lantern at the eclipse
During a lunar eclipse, while the moon is partially covered by Earth’s shadow, sunlight passing through Earth’s ozone layer creates a bluish tint on to lunar surface. Rami Ammoun captured this scene during the recent lunar eclipse.
The Total Lunar Eclipse minutes ago pic.twitter.com/eKUjwo1U3A
— Rami Ammoun (@rami_astro) March 14, 2025
HDR eclipse
Photographer Andrew McCarthy used 4 cameras to capture an extremely detailed view of the lunar eclipse. He used 4 cameras to accumulate 300GB of data for this image.
Last night I used 4 cameras to capture the ultimate HDR view of the lunar eclipse
— Andrew McCarthy (@AJamesMcCarthy) March 14, 2025
This 300GB image shows the lunar surface in extreme detail, while revealing all rich color that was projected onto the surface
See the full res crop or get a print in the reply to this post pic.twitter.com/5VYAobEpfI
Eclipse triplet
Petr Horalek, a renowned astrophotographer, captured and composed an image that shows three phases of the eclipse: beginning of totality, during totality, and end of totality.
If you have missed this eclipse, prepare for another upcoming total lunar eclipse in September 2025.
Clear skies!
Soumyadeep Mukherjee
Soumyadeep Mukherjee is an award-winning astrophotographer from India. He has a doctorate degree in Linguistics. His work extends to the sub-genres of nightscape, deep sky, solar, lunar and optical phenomenon photography. He is also a photography educator and has conducted numerous workshops. His works have appeared in over 40 books & magazines including Astronomy, BBC Sky at Night, Sky & Telescope among others, and in various websites including National Geographic, NASA, Forbes. He was the first Indian to win “Astronomy Photographer of the Year” award in a major category.
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