Physics Photo of the Week November 11, 2022 Total Lunar Eclipse from May, 2022 - Revisited (Photos by Donald Collins) The total lunar eclipse from May 15, 2022 is the feature PPOW for this week. In the May post, an additional feature of all lunar eclipses is added. Notice in the picture of the totally eclipsed Moon, we can see two stars. Faint stars near the Moon are normally not visible in photographs of the normal un-eclipsed Moon, because the camera is overwhelmed by the Moon's extreme brightness compared with the stars. The faint total eclipse permits the faint stars to be seen very close to the Moon, I made a series of total eclipse images from last May's eclipse. The first image (above) was taken soon after totality began; the last image was taken soon before totality ended - about 48 minutes after totality began. The stars and the Moon are seen in each of these images which are displayed in an animated sequence below. If the telescope and camera were stat