last lunar eclipse for a while...
 

I'm looking at it right now and there is a dark circular shape jutting into the lower left of the moon....

its strange, it looks almost "fizzy" around the edge of the dark spot and i feel like i just looked straight into the sun. oops.

does anybody see a triangle to flashing orbs off side of the moon? They aren't airplanes, but flash, so maybe they are satellites filming this? :dunno:

Some pics...almost snapshotish in lack of quality, as I shot
handheld at 1/5 sec, f9 at ISO 1600, with a not nearly tele lens
of ~80mm.

I hope JCL or another of the posters with some "gear" got a shot.
It was clear here, but ambient light in SW FLA is severe.

NEway, hot off the press, as we used to say...
BR,mD

mD,
Great pics with the lunar eclipse. Thanks for sharing.

Not particularly good shots, but here are some that I got tonight. 85 mm Televue refractor, 600 mm focal length, eyepiece projection with a 20 mm Plossl, Nikon D70 set at ISO800, 1/2 second on a photo tripod. Lots of light from the city, and I didn't wait for the telescope to properly cool down, but just playing around. What was more fun were all the people walking by on the sidewalk; I gave them all a peek and got lots of oohs and ahs. What was really good was the view of Saturn, with rings all visible. Makes me think I should haul out the gear more often. MD: I see you got Saturn in your shots too.

Here are some of my shots taken from my daughter's bedroom window. Had some lens flare problems with a street light that's directly across, even with the lens hood on :banghead: .
Canon 20D and 70-200mm 4.0 L. I wish I had a 600mm like Jeff though.

http://www.humbalang.com/ray/x5world/eclipse1.jpg

http://www.humbalang.com/ray/x5world/eclipse2.jpg

http://www.humbalang.com/ray/x5world/eclipse3.jpg

http://www.humbalang.com/ray/x5world/eclipse4.jpg

I tried to take some pics too. It was very cloudy here, had to wait for a clear spot. This is probably the best one I took. I cropped this out of the original 3008x2000 size file to about 800x600. shot with a Nikon D100, Sigma 100-300 zoom, on a shakey tripod and no cable release :rolleyes: . Damn, I gotta get one of those!

Yes, a sturdy tripod, a cable release, and using mirror lock-up is a must. A shakey tripod is still better than no tripod at all though. Looks like you had the ISO cranked up?