[Greg]

I decided to break out the telescope to check out tonight's lunar eclipse. I also tried taken some pictures of the moon through the eyepiece with my digital camera. Surprisingly enough, the pics of the full moon came out pretty good so I tried to take pictures of the eclipse during various phases. The ones with the most light came out the best, but overall not a bad job for a total hack with a marginal telescope and a 3.2 megapixel point and shoot digital camera. I hope you enjoy them:

9:10 PM - Full moon:


9:26 PM - Eclipse starting:


9:44 PM - 1/3 eclipsed:


10:11 PM - 2/3 eclipsed:


10:28 PM - Almost fully eclipsed:


I couldn't get a full eclipse image as some high clouds rolled in. Probably wouldn't have come out any good anyway considering the low light. This nighttime photography is pretty cool and something I probably could get into with the right equipment...