April 15, 2014

Lunar Eclipse (April 15, 2014)


Wow!  What a beautiful night!  What a beautiful eclipse!  Our last several lunar eclipses here were clouded out, so we've been waiting a while for this show.  In the backyard, the air was still and cool.  During the eclipse, the sky was full of stars!  The picture was made more dramatic by the bright star Spica, seen in the images above, and by the planets Mars and Saturn, which framed the moon to the right and left.

Images taken with a Canon T3i through an AT65EDQ, aided by a Unistar Deluxe and a Takahashi EM-10.