My feeble attempt to capture the lunar eclipse. Perfect skies but unfortunately just as the eclipse hit totality, the sun was coming up and the moon was going down. This created too much light and since the moon was so close to the horizon it was being viewed through 10 times more atmosphere making it blurry. Sigh.
Normally I would shoot through my telescope but but couldn’t find a crucial connector. These were shot with a Nikon 300mm telephoto. The order above is the order that they were shot. Was trying different exposures, that is why the lighting is inconsistent.
The last one we had that was viewable in western US was perfectly long and dark but it also happened to be one of the rare cloudy nights here in the desert.
The next full lunar eclipse is April 14-15, 2014.
