Eclipsed Moonlight

Moon watchers blessed with clear skies over the Americas, Europe,
Africa and western Asia enjoyed a total lunar eclipse this week.
Catching eclipsed moonlight,astroimager Jerry Lodriguss offers
this view of the inspiring celestial event with the shadowed Moon
accompanied by wandering planet Saturn at the left, and bright
Regulus, alpha star of the constellation Leo, above. The engaging
composite picture was made by combining a filtered, telephoto image
of the Moon and surrounding starfield with a telescopic exposure.
The combination dramatizes the reddened moonlight while clearly
showing the variation of brightness and color in Earth's not-so-dark
shadow across the lunar surface.