Photos: The Lunar Eclipse Through My Telescope

[JMapleton]

Update: 3:45 AM CST

Last set of photos with an eclipse. I'm getting tired. Next photo will be a full shot of the moon, enlarged when eclipse is completely gone.

 

[JMapleton]

Grand Finale: Eclipse Gone 4:15 AM CST

 

[rcpratt]

Thanks.

 

[Possessed Freak]

I was out there at 3am watching for a good hour. I took some pictures but they look like crappy orange blobs... (no tripod). Thanks for the beautiful shots.

 

[TridenT]

Decent photos. I wasn't really interested in this kind of thing. I saw it once on accident late at night a few years ago when I went outside at night. (One of the rare times I actually went into my backyard just for whatever) I don't feel I ever need to see it again.

 

[skyking]

Nice! Thank you for posting that. I went out but the clouds never relented. It was clear up to about an hour before the eclipse started, argh.

 

[lizardth]

WOW! Thank you! It was cloudy here in Cen Tex and we only got a few looks here and there.

 

[ChairShot]

awesome job.... was ready myself in montreal. But got treated to some fkin clouds!!!

 

[mcvickj]

Thanks for posting. Viewing the eclipse was hit or miss here.

 

[TwiceOver]

Thanks! It was far too overcast for me to see anything last night

 

[rasczak]

That, my friend, was pretty damn awesome. Thank you for sharing.

 

[The_Dude8]

thanks for sharing, awesome pictures.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Nice pics, great job J

 

[ViviTheMage]

It was snowing like mad, so we couldn't see it

 

[fatpat268]

WOW! Thank you! It was cloudy here in Cen Tex and we only got a few looks here and there.

I got lucky in my part of centex. There was only a thin layer of clouds, but it was mostly clear around the moon.

 

[Juddog]

Very nice pictures! I couldn't see it last night, since there was so much cloud cover.

 

[DougK62]

Great pictures. Makes me want to go to the moon some day!

 

[destrekor]

Great photos and documentation of the event!
I missed it, because it just wasn't on the right night for me to wake up at that time or whatever.

I've watched one before, but if timed right I wouldn't pass up watching it again. I love looking out at the neighborhood, though doing so from the city isn't as neat as it could be.

I love when I travel out to a place with little civilization and one can see the band of dust and light that forms one of the arms of our galaxy.

 

[mrrman]

very nice....it was cloudy here so i couldnt see it

 

[JMapleton]

Wow, looks like a lot people got hit with clouds!

 

[JMapleton]

Some guy on a telescope forum made this very very low magnification long exposure photo of the moon while it's eclipsing that includes all the stars and a few nebulae around it.

http://www.astropix.com/HTML/SHOW_DIG/Lunar_Eclipse_20101221.HTM

Freaking amazing.

 

[AkumaX]

all of socal atot'ers thank you

 

[GundamW]

all of socal atot'ers thank you

Agree.
Thank you, OP. Those are gorgeous pictures.

 

[Powermoloch]

all bow to OP awesomesauce

 

[Modular]

Thanks for posting this!