I'm going out of chronological order so I can bring you today's hot photos. Coincidentally to my coming home today, the moon went into eclipse. Since it was such a clear night, I hung around outside to take some photos of it, and here's some of what I got.

When I started taking photos, the moon was about three-quarters into Earth's penumbra. The part in shadow was turning orange and red, as is usual.

Once it was in full eclipse, I went inside and had dinner. The clear skies had come hand-in-hand with cold temperatures, and I felt like warming up a bit.

I went back out about an hour later, and the moon was now moving out of our penumbra.

I put my 2x teleconverter on and went exclusively to remote-control triggering. Even so, only about ten to twenty percent of my photos turned out usable. The rest were blurry. I think I was using exposures that were too long, and the moon was moving while the shutter was open, which caused some of the blurring. Also, the vibration reduction on my lens might have been interfering rather than helping.

But even getting ten to twenty percent usable was okay...I still got some good shots.

One odd thing was that I had noticed the full moon yesterday. I was starting to drive home from Iona Beach, as the sun was setting and I had run out of good lighting. The moon was in the sky to the west; this is to be expected in late October; it's called the Hunter's Moon. In late September, the Harvest Moon also rises at around sunset. Anyhow, I had stopped to take some pictures of the moon in sunset colors yesterday, not knowing that there would be an eclipse today.

In these last two photos, I've rotated the image so that you see the moon rising out of the shadow of the Earth.

Anyhow, that was my fun for the evening.

Always ready to shoot the moon,
Tom