Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy captured Mars rising behind the full Moon which temporarily eclipsed the Red Planet in the night sky on Wednesday.
captured Mars rising behind the full Moon which temporarily eclipsed the Red Planet in the night sky on Wednesday.that he had been monitoring the rare celestial event over the course of 2022 so he could get fantastic images of Mars peeking out behind the Moon.
“I also needed a better telescope than what I had, so I found one in Los Angeles and picked it up a few weeks ago.”“The reason for that is the moon moves so fast relative to mars that I only have a brief window to capture it in a specific spot, so traditional timeframes for capturing no longer apply,” he explains.
Known as a lunar occultation, Wednesday’s celestial event was particularly noteworthy because Earth was directly between Mars and the Sun, known as opposition, making the Red Planet appear particularly bright in the night sky. “To help combat local ground-based air currents ‘fuzzing’ the image, I set up my telescope next to my pool which stabilized the air when pointing over it.”
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