Moon eclipses perhaps were one of the most amazing events that primitive men could appreciate in the sky. Since then, human being hasn't gived up amazing with this kind of shows the nature brings to us two or three time a year.
Below you will be able to appreciate
some photograps compilations I have done from past eclipses, pictures were
taken through my 7.28", f 7.24 home made Newtonian Reflector Telescope
using a Zenit TTL and a Canon AE-1 Program reflex cameras, placed at the
focus plane without the native objetives, that is to say; the telescope's
main mirror became the main objetive of the cameras.
Due to the cloudy sky that night, was very difficult to obtain good photographic results, unfortunatelly the total stage of the eclipse couldn't be registered in good way by my camera.
The exposure times for the above sequence ranged from 1/30 to 1/125 with KODAK Gold ASA 100 film.
This time we were a bit more lucky and could catch the total phase of this eclipse which appears at the rightest picture of the above sequence. It's clearly visible the copper color
the moon takes due to the solar rays that once passed through our atmosphere, reach the surface of the moon with a reddish color due to refraction, as occurs with a crystal prism.
This time the exposure time for the total stage was less than 5 seconds (without driving system) and between 1/30 to 1/125 for the partial phase using KODAK Gold ASA 400 film.