The afternoon of May 15, 2022, was very frustrating for Ottawa astronomers. A lunar eclipse was going to happen that evening, and there were heavy thunderstorms. Amazingly, just before the start of umbral eclipse, the clouds moved off to the south and even though flashes of lightening kept lighting up the sky, the Moon was easily visible, low in the south. My own yard has trees to the south, so I drove a few blocks south to the bicycle path along the edge of the Central Experimental Farm, set up my gear and started taking a sequence of exposures in hopes of creating a collage or time-lapse. Near midnight, I noticed that the moon was about to occult a reasonably bright star (magnitude 6.25 according to Stellarium) in Libra, so I increased the frequency of my exposures. This is a single snapshot just seconds before the star disappeared. The full Moon phase occurs when the Moon is opposite the Sun in the sky. If the Moon is in the Earth's shadow it is obviously in exactly this position. More commonly the Moon is above or below the shadow at the full Moon phase.
Date: 2022-05-16 0:00 EDT
Location: Experimental Farm, Ottawa, ON
Equipment: Z73 telescope, Canon M100 camera, Star Adventurer mount
Settings: 4s, ISO 800
Processing: Original 6000x4000 pixel image scaled to 1200x800 and signed using Photoshop Elements. No other processing.