On the 21st January 2019, a full lunar eclipse coincided with a “super moon”, which was visible across the Northern Hemisphere - this is sometimes referred to as a “wolf moon”. I tumbled/ stumbled out of bed at 5:15am UK time to try to capture the event. The conditions were not ideal, since firstly I am based in London where the light pollution is immense, and secondly because clouds kept drifting over the moon. Unlike a full moon which is incredibly bright, and hence one can use low ISO and a reasonably fast shutter speed, the blood moon is so dark you can still see stars in its immediate vicinity in the sky. There’s a massive trade-off therefore between getting an image that’s sharp (the Moon moves across the camera’s field of view incredibly quickly at these magnifications) without being just a field of noise. I pushed my trusty Canon 80d to ISO 2500 with f6.3 set on my Sigma 150-600 Contemporary, which allowed me a shutter speed around 1/4 of a second. Mounted on a Manfrotto tripod with a Benro gimbal head, the results are not fantastic, but it did allow me to photograph this rare coincidence of astronomical phenomena. As the Moon came out of the Earth’s shadow I took a few shots of the end of the eclipse.