The October 27th Total Lunar Eclipse

 There
            were plenty of heavy clouds this night here up in Payson, but
            it was mostly clear during totality, allowing some images to
            be taken with the Meade 622 Comet Tracker and the new 10D. Being
            able to see the exposures of the moon on the LCD during totality
            took all the guess work out of the exposure times, making this
            the highest successful percentage of shots eclipse ever for us.
            Most exposures were about 4 seconds, except for the center image,
            I over exposed the disk to show the stars for 20 seconds.
Click on the thumbnails for an enlarged view:

Instrument:  6" f/3.6 Schmidt Newtonian
Platform:  Televue GEM
Camera:  Canon 10D
Exposure:  1/125 - 30s @ ASA100
Filters:  None
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing  6/10, Transparency 6/10
Outside Temperature:  10 C
Processing Tools:  Photoshop CS
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