There was a total lunar eclipse on the night of February 20/21, 2008. It was visible from North and South America, Western Europe, Western Asia and Africa. Doug Scobel took the set of photographs shown above that night and wrote the following:
In case you missed it here’s a mosaic of the eclipse from start to finish.
All pictures were taken through Smurfette, my 6-inch f/4.5 homemade Newt, on a driven Vixen GP-D2 mount. I attached my old Nikon Coolpix 800 point-and-shoot to a 14mm Televue Radian eyepiece. Digital processing was done in JASC Paint Shop Pro version 8.
Enjoy,
DougI also created an animation from the above and other pictures I took during the eclipse (the animation is 983K, so it may take a moment to download). Click here to see the animation.
In addition, I put together a new animation of the February 20 total lunar eclipse, showing the moon moving through the earth’s shadow. I made the animation in JASC Animation Shop, using the same images with which I made my previous animation (showing a stationary moon). I think you’ll like it. Click here to see the animation.
