![]() However the moon in the sky was red, my photos just showed the shadow. The first photos before total eclipse were looking good, I used the same settings as my test shots. ![]() I’d missed the start but not the main event. I had the telescope outside by 3:30 and and ready to shoot just before 4am. When I went to bed at 11, cloudy, 2:00am cloudy!ģ:15am however, clearing with hazy, I could see the moon, but with haze. All day I’d been checking the sky, cloudy, clear patches, cloudy…, 8pm clear, I grabbed some test shots and the moon showing full incase it was cloudy when it started. The total eclipse was between 04:41 & 05:43, but it all started at 02:36. I’d set a couple of alarms for that night. so I really unsure as to what I would get, whether I would see it or indeed even I could view all of it from the background as the moon was going to be towards the house at that time. We hadn’t had many clear nights before the eclipse. I knew before Christmas I was getting it, I also knew that there was a lunar eclipse not long after Christmas and the last total eclipse for 10 years! So no pressure to get a photo of it then! (taken with iPhone at dusk) A Skywatcher Explorer 200p with goto EQ5 mount. So for Christmas I got this beast and a big learning curve. As I mentioned in my previous post, I am new to Astrophotography, especially using a telescope (as I’ve never had one!).
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