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Lunar Eclipse 2008-02-20 (20080226)

I got a replacement Canon 30D camera body delivered a few weeks ago especially so I could shoot this eclipse. I was extremely fortunate to have all my ducks lined up with nice skies in Puerto Escondido, and my camera setup including a 200 mm lens with 2X Extender, effectively giving a 640 mm view at 3504 pixels, and cropped to 800 pixels square. The only SNAFU was that I somehow ended up saving all the full eclipse shots in RAW, so I now need to (PITA) decode them all. The one shot (2837) which I was able to successfully decode turned out pretty well so I may soon include a few more. The biggest problem when shooting was getting fast shots, as the eclipsed moon was fairly dark, but moving along, so I was shooting at 800 ISO, wide open at 5.6 at under 1 s.
The first few shots were taken just after the moon rose through the coco palms.

This eclipse complements the previous two I shot, including the 2007-08-28 one, and the 2004-10-27 one.

The image times are also all available in the information files, and the eclipse times (CST) were:

19:43 Moon entered Earth's dark umbral shadow
21:01 Totality began
21:26 Mid-eclipse
21:51 Totality ended
23:09 Moon left the umbra

Select image thumbnail for large WWW version, image name for information

IMG 2749 (18:56:14)
IMG 2753 (19:14:50)
IMG 2758 (19:50:30)
IMG 2762 (20:00:18)

IMG 2765 (20:11:10)
IMG 2773 (20:25:32)
IMG 2779 (20:34:30)
IMG 2791 (20:40:18)

IMG 2807 (20:50:14)
IMG 2811 (20:53:06)
IMG 2821 (20:57:04)
IMG 2828 (21:06:48)

IMG 2837 (21:10:32)
IMG 2872 (21:55:26)
IMG 2891 (22:13:38)
IMG 2902 (22:21:38)

IMG 2904 (22:27:36)
IMG 2909 (22:34:40)
IMG 2913 (22:50:26)
IMG 2916 (22:59:00)

IMG 2920 (23:03:58)
IMG 2922 (23:06:02)
IMG 2929 (23:08:36)
IMG 2934 (23:11:36)
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