Lunar Eclipse at the Penobscot by Tom Hughes
Space.com shares that we’re just one week away from a near total lunar eclipse on the evening of August 27-28, 2026:
Stargazers on the night side of Earth (that’s us!) will catch their first glimpse of our planet’s umbra (the darkest, innermost part of its shadow) creeping onto the moon’s surface at 10:33 p.m. EDT on Aug. 27. The vast shadow will continue its advance across the crater-scarred landscape in the hours that follow, until it hits the point of maximum eclipse at 12:12 a.m. EDT on Aug. 28.
Around this time, you may notice the shadowed region of the moon take on a reddish-orange color, as sunlight filtered through Earth’s atmosphere is bent onto the lunar surface — a phenomenon often referred to as a “Blood Moon” during a total eclipse.
I first shared this amazing shot of a partial lunar eclipse over the Detroit skyline way back in 2015. See more great photos from Tom on Flickr.
That’s not an unaltered image…. Caption should tell us it’s two images, either AI, photoshopped ….. it’s nice but not real.
Let’s be honest in our images
It’s from 2015 so not AI. It was taken from Belle Isle with a telephoto lens. I will probably post something about the optical phenomenon that makes the moon look gigantic, but for now you can read this to understand that it’s a real photo:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskPhotography/comments/18rkgn5/is_the_moon_edited_or_how_is_it_possible_for_it/