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This is a very simple movie, a short story. Our endeavour was to shoot the rising Lunar Eclipse of 31st January exactly behind the Trisul Massif. The key factor in this expedition is the location, or rather finding the perfect locaion which would provide a clear unobstructed landscape view of the Trisul and on 31st January the direciton of celestial object Moon should match with the terrestrial Trisul masssif.

We settled on a spot called Benital near Karnarayag. It was calculated to be a perfect location to observe and photograph the juxtaposition of Moon and Trisul together. Benital is not very high, less than 7000 feet. Its a open level meadow, lots of clean flat space. What a panorama ! 120° of Snow-capped Himalayan peaks starting from Bandarpunch to Trisul and Tharkot.

This is a completely home brewed movie. It was made by teenagers Nakul & Arjune, and Neelam and myself. Nakul flew all the drone flights and shot the videos at all locations. More importantly he planned all shots before each flight. Arjune has burned the midnight LED and completely build up all musical notes from scratch. Arjune also shot sevral time lapse sequences at Benital. Neelam and me have gathered video, still and time lapse footage. Ajay did the movie editing.

The movie is has 4 sections - reaching Benital via Alaknanda and Pinder, then setting camp at Benital, a day before the eclipse the Moon rose behind Trisul. On the eclipse evening we had a lot of clouds, and though we were not able to capture the eclipsed Moon behind Trisul II we did get to capture the Crimson Eclipsed Moon a while later. In some of the shots you can see the Beehive cluster of stars nearby the eclipsed Moon.


Neelam – Night Photography and logistics
Nakul – drone footage
Arjune – night photography and music production
Ajay – night photography and editing.