I had set my alarm to get up about 1/2 hour before the eclipse reached totality hoping to capture the ‘blood moon”. Rolling out of a nice warm bed at 11:45 and throwing some warm cloths on I went out and saw the moon was about 75% darkened. Hurrying to fire up the mount with the Williams Optics 81 mm telescope with a stock Canon 450D (XSi) attached to the back I did a quick planetary alignment and then slewed over to the moon. After framing the moon as centered as possible and fine tuning the focus I began taking pictures. The handy little program BackyardEOS did a fine job of managing the imaging session and displaying each image as it was downloaded to my trusty laptop. This is a 13 second shot at ISO 100. One example of aver 100 actually. The mount tracking the moon did a fine job of minimizing star trails and blur. I’d say the images were well worth standing out in mid 20 deg air temps for an hour.
Pretty cool. Like how you can see in to the future. April 15, 2015? Must mean 2014. 🙂
LOL – ah well I never was good at proof reading my own stuff.