Lunar Eclipse at Night

This video shows the lunar eclipse of December 10th, 2011. The time-lapse video was photographed in southern California, United States. Accompanied by a sort of lullaby musical score, this nighttime video begins with a high exposure wide shot of the Moon moving from screen top to bottom. As the Moon descends, a tiny twinkling star moves with it through the celestial sphere, like a loyal dog following its human master. The eclipse is just beginning, and although with this exposure, the Moon looks a little like the Sun against the blackness of space, there is the tiniest sliver of Earth's shadow. Nearby trees on the Earth frame the outside of the picture, and periodically, the branches and leaves are lit by passing cars, the headlight illumination accelerated into quick flashes by the time-compressed video. The same exposure is used for the next shot, which shows a close-up of the Moon. The Earth's shadow gradually descends over the descending Moon. The lunar 'seas' are faintly emerging.