Here are the best of my photos from last night's total eclipse of the moon....



The initial phase seemed to go quite quickly but as totality approached it seemed to take ages to be complete.





I now switched my attention to exposing for the shaded part of the moon rather than the bright area.



The star visible to the right of the moon is I believe 56 Leo, will have to get confirmation of that though.

Mitch

There was a partial Lunar eclipse this evening, but, the moon was out of view for me until the excitement was over.

By then I was in my reclining chairhoping for some eyeball astronomy but the full moon was by then washing out most of the sky.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to get my new scope and obviously have a play with it, but it looks like it will mainly be the moon will be my first target!

Later
Mitch