
In my mind, I thought I could easily capture an eclipse with any of my cell phones without the moon looking like just a dot or a light bulb, haha, but I really couldn't. my phones don’t have the best cameras—even though my old Xiaomi takes spectacular close-up photos, it’s a different story from far away; it doesn’t capture the moon very well at all. But despite that, I was really excited to see the eclipse and take a picture of it, even if it looks like a pixelated light bulb.

I’ve always loved watching eclipses; to me, they’re very important events. I think they’re one of the most wonderful things we can see in our lifetime—both lunar and solar eclipses (I’ve only seen a solar eclipse once in my life, and I was very young—back in the ’90s. Since then, I don’t recall another solar eclipse in my country.) Yesterday there was a lunar eclipse that began on the night of August 27 and ended in the early morning hours of the 28th. The moon began to rise behind the mountain, lighting up the entire sky; it was super full and bright.

I was pretty worried about the clouds since there were a lot of them last night, and the weather in my country has been really crazy lately—it could start raining out of nowhere and we’d miss the eclipse. Luckily, that didn’t happen. Anyway, after a while, a shadow started to appear on the moon. Little by little, it became covered, but each shot got harder to take—the moon looked more and more like a light bulb on both of my cell phones. I used the PRO mode, manual settings, and everything else, but nothing made the moon look any better.


I kept switching between my two phones, trying to take a decent photo, but the best I could manage was this. In person, it looked incredible—even though the moon was far away, it had a reddish hue. My neck still really hurts because, to make matters worse, the moon was setting almost directly above my building, so it was very hard to see it without having to crane my neck too much.


This is the last photo I took of it; at that point, it was already almost completely red, although it was a partial eclipse, so it would never turn completely red. I had to go to sleep because I was so tired, but watching the whole process was wonderful—something I’ll never get tired of experiencing. I hate not having a telescope so I can see these wonders in better detail; I absolutely love all these astronomical events.




