The eclipsed Moon rises over the Andes, at the Atacama Desert. Taken at 18:20 local time (22:20 UT), the Moon is just leavimg the difuse limit between the umbra and the penumbra. Photo details: Panasonic Lumix digital camera, 50 ASA; -2 EV exposure.

"Moonset from the mountain."

Camera : Canon EOS 10D Telescope : Takahashi MT-200 Focal Length : 1200mm (Digital conversion : 1920mm) F ratio : 6 Exposure : 8 sec ISO : 400 Colorspace : sRGB Exposure Mode: Manual exposure

It was a frustrating evening ... I take a Workshop at Jodrell Bank on every first Tuesday of the month, and last month we billed the TLE as a fantastic opportunity. We did count on the weather being co-operative, but alas no. I arrived home at 2300, to see faint brightenings in the cloud cover. I hastily got my Nikon 5700 with 1.5x teleconverter and shot about 8 .5 second *hand-held* images. I think the cloud really adds to the 'atmospheric' feel of the image.

Olympus E-10, f2.4, 4s exposure, full zoom with an external 1.5x magnifier (200mm equivalent focal length)

Image taken with Celestron Nexstar 114 GT and Nikon Coolpix 2000

I was really lucky with these, because right after totality, the sky began to get cloudy. Image taken with a Canon S45 through a Meade ETX-105. First pic is taken at 1/100 sec, ISO 50, and the second one is at 15 seconds ISO 100

During much of the eclipse the sky was overcast. Couple of minutes before the end of totality lower clouds started vanishing, but Cirrus still was covering whole sky. Near the end of partial eclipse Cirrus allowed me to take advantage of full zoom of my digicam.

Sony 717

Observers in Hong Kong were unfortunate that the clear sky became cloudy just at the begining of the lunar eclipse.