I was out taking pictures of the eclipse through an Astro Physics Starfire 160. I didn't think I'd have much of a view due to clouds and a poor western horizon, but there it was :) As I was taking images of the eclipse, I noticed a little pimple on the edge of the moon. I snapped another shot and sure enough, a star had just come out from behind the moon. Sweet!

Cold weather, fortunately cloudless after a season of much snow. Beautiful eclipse, with the Moon setting over the Cordillera de los Andes.

Photo details: Fuji FinePix S2 digital camera w/ 11" Celestron, prime focus 1) 03:52:38 am MDT 1/2 second exposure ISO800 2) 04:11:40 am MDT 6 second exposure ISO800

Three of my friends were watching the Total Lunar Eclipse with me last night in Hung Hom district of Hong Kong. But there were lots of clouds above us, we failed to see the total eclipse. Finally, we got a chance to see the partial eclipse through the gaps of clouds!

I used my Astro Physical APO refractor 180 mm EDT plus the 0.72X teleconverter and Canon 350D to capture the event. The sky was cloudy with occasional shower.

Photo details: Canon A520, 4 sec., 50 iso time: 20:12

Photo details: Vixen DED-108, Canon 400D, 2.5sec, iso 400

Going, going, and almost gone - what a way to greet the dawn!! (Has a nice ring to it, eh?)

Photo details: Canon Rebel XTi with a 300mm Nikkor lens @ f/5.6, 1/10th second exposure at ISO 100.

just back from the lab to see if I got 'the shot'. this is a multiple exposure showing the newly risen full moon and then 33 additional exposures every 10 minutes of the eclipse.

Photo details: Nikon F100, Fuji CN135 16mm Rectilinear Fisheye

one wide angle shot, one at the begining of totality, one in the middle (with stars), and one time lapse of moonset.

A nice display of partial lunar eclipse at moonset over Quebec city. At totality , the Moon was under the horizon.

Photo details: Pentax *Ist Ds, 400 ISO, 135mm and 400mm lens.

I gave my equipment a shake down test run in the city on the moon about 11 PM, then headed to the outskirts in nearby Waskahegan by Elk Island National Park for some darker skies. Got my scope setup just in time for the big show and snapped many pics. One of the neat things I noticed was that like a solar eclipse as the it progressed near totality the local wildlife Geese and Coyotes got very noisy as the moon shifted. At totality all was silent again until it went into partial again. Also, I seem a huge northern lights display pulsating from the north very fast, and clear overhead to the zenith. I was here for the eclipse tonight though, so never took any pics of that. In hindsight I wish I did also one of the more impressive displays I've seen in years!

It was also pretty neat to the read your news story about the 'blue flash'. I was wondering what that was and even recorded it in a few of my images as I did a few stars!! All in all, one of the best Lunar Eclipses I have seen on the whole. While packing up and driving back to the city I got to enjoy the tail-end of it too. PPS - I need some sleep now! Going on 4 hours in the past 24! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.... gnite!

Photoshop combination of three images made at prime focus of Meade 12" scope with focal reducer. Six seconds upper, four seconds middle, 2 seconds lower. Quickfixed and put into panorama.

Photo details: Canon EOS 350D, 300mm, F5.6, exposures from 4s to 1/1000s