![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The workers erected the stones to replace an earlier wooden structure, pointing to the fact that this was a site of high significance to the Neolithic and early Bronze Age people. Archaeologists have determined that the ancient builders brought the material from nearby Marlborough Downs as well as from south Wales in about 2,500 BC. Stonehenge is a Neolithic monument on Salisbury Plain in the south-west of England. Stonehenge, Amesbury, Witlshire, England, UK. Cloud cover matched predictions precisely this night. However, this was a favourite spot that I had shot from several times before, but never a lunar eclipse! I chased here to avoid the worst of the clouds incoming from the west. Location planning done with the aid of The Photographer's Ephemeris and TPE3D. This is a single image with the Canon RF70-200mm lens at 141mm and f/5 and 0.6 seconds at ISO 100 with the red-sensitive Canon Ra camera. It is named for the Reesor family who now in their fifth generation still ranch just up the road from here north of the Park. The lake is home in spring and summer to lots of white American pelicans seen dotting the lake here. This was from the west end of Reesor Lake near the Saskatchewan border. It was a narrow band of photo opportunity, but at the right time for foreground lighting in the still bright twilight. But for a while at moonrise the band of sky with the Moon low in the southeast was clear. Later, as totality began with the Moon entirely in the umbra, the Moon had moved up into the increasing clouds at top that were moving eastward, and obscured the Moon for the rest of totality. This was in the last stages of the partial eclipse, with a portion of the Moon's disk stlll illuminated by direct sunlight, but the rest in the red umbral shadow.įrom my location and longitude, the Moon rose in the late stages of the initial partial eclipse, but with the portion of the Moon's disk in the umbra glowing a dim red and just visible in the blue twilight sky. The eclipsed Full Moon rising over Reesor Lake in Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, Alberta, on May 15, 2022. ![]()
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