THERE WILL BE SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS! Blood 🩸 Moon Picture by: Thomas Mabry BADGER CAPTURED THIS IMAGE from Glassmine Falls Overlook looking over the Asheville Watershed at nearly near 5,000 feet elevation on the overlook. The photo represents what my camera saw and recorded near maximum of the 8.28.2026 partial lunar eclipse. A tight ring of color appeared around the last bright sliver of the Moon. My research indicated that it is a lunar corona, not the big 22° ice crystal halo which is more well known. Wispy clouds are commonplace above the watershed and they ensconced the moon at maximum. I'm told those thin water droplets in the clouds diffract moonlight. Blue bends less than red, so you get a small inner blue/green band and a warmer ring just outside it. The uneclipsed sliver was still bright enough to light the droplets. Fearing a camera or lens aberration, I went back through the set of photos taken near and at maximum. The same corona appears on four frames I viewed - in the same place, with the same colors and in the files before I touched them. Badger generally shoots in RAW and edits in Lightroom and tonight was no exception. The main edit here is denoise. High-ISO grain was sitting on top of midtones that already held the rings. I cropped to the Moon and the first two bands and left the the rest virtually untouched. The mountains supplied the cloud. The eclipse supplied the light. The camera recorded both. Again, Badger was in the right place at the right time. Canon R6 Mark II - RF24-105mm F4 at 105mm - IS0 800 - 0ev - f8 - 1/8 sec. shutter