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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Total Lunar Eclipse! August 28, 2007

I got up in the wee hours to watch a total lunar eclipse. Had some fun snapping photos with my regular digital camera and tripod-- not bad results!

We open with the eclipse well underway-- around 2:20 am, as I recall.



The last remnants of light fade....



We're left with a dark, blood-red Moon. It was spectacular through the binocs!




The light began to return, as the Sun emerged from behind the Earth....



Just image what primitive people must have thought when this happened.....




Not sure why the "wing" artifact (below) appeared. ??





By the time the Moon was again visible, the glare was almost too bright to record an image.




She's back! What a great way to spend a middle of the night....

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