Three Miles South Of Waitsburg:

The Times is grateful to Todd Wagner of Blue Mountain Counseling in Dayton for this spectacular image of Monday night's lunar eclipse, the first to occur during the winter solstice in four centuries. Wagner, who lives in Walla Walla, had to go out of his way to find clear skies, since his town was socked in. He finally set up his camera where McCown intersects Highway 12 about three miles south of Waitsburg and shot various phases of the total eclipse over a period of two hours. In this photo, which he took at ISO 200 at an F-stop of 5.6 and an exposure time of 0.769 seconds just before midnight, the moon is re-emerging from the earth's shadow blocking the sun because the heavenly bodies were all perfectly aligned during the eclipse. The color on the moon is brown, red and orange from the sunlight filtered through the earth's atmosphere.