Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight

Due to some REALLY beautifully clear (and very cold) skies, we got a great view of tonight’s total lunar eclipse.

Given the amount of clouds we’ve had all week at night, I was extremely surprised we got a break and very grateful since this is the last total one until 2010.

I took the picture above with my Canon PowerShot G3 4.0 megapixel digital camera at high res using its standard lens (using my car roof as a tripod!) and the self-timer (so it wouldn’t have my usual handshaky totally out-of-focus in a completely non-artistic style. LOL) I cropped the original to show just the section with the moon – otherwise to make it fit the blog it would be just be a black square with a little reddish spot…

What’s really scary is this picture taken with a digital camera actually turned out much, much better than one I tried to take years ago with a Minolta 35mm w/telephoto lens. Weird.

Technorati Tags: Astronomy, Lunar Eclipse, Photography