I was pleasantly surprised with the way this little project turned out so I though of giving it a thread of its own and share it with you all .


Phase In


mid eclipse


Blood Moon

Flare Out


Phase Out


Lunar Eclipse Phase Chart

This is a link to a large version of the Phase chart (1200 x 900)
http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/2616/lunareclipsechartlgaj8.jpg

Lunar Eclipse - GIF 1.39 Mb

Awesome work Luis.
I didn't see it, but with those terrific photos i can see it now .Thanks!

Very cool my friend! Carly thinks so too. I was outside taking pictures of the moon that night and my neighbors kid came out and asked if I was taking pictures of the eclipse and I replied "what eclipse"? Then I saw what was left of it in my pics.....hahahaha. Didn't even know it was going on. Oh well I knew you would take some fantastic pics of it and share them so I didn't worry about it.
Thanks for sharing all your effort! Really beautiful pictures.

WOOOOOW!!!

Does the moon belong to anyone?

Can someone claim ownership of the moon or any other planet?

I call dips on Saturn

that is fantastic Luis, very cool spread of images, and great little idea to make the gif too.

Cheers

If I'm not mistaken Saturn is actually on sale for one day only so if your interested we can draw up the paperwork. You can pay me through my paypal account when your ready.

http://www.moonshop.com/

This is really cool. Thanks for sharing!

Luxwiz, thanks for sharing your experience. Can you resize/crop the different phases of the eclipse, so that the moon size and position matches from slide to slide. There's a similar one (from a different eclipse) here

wow !

Fred Espenak did some pro work here.I took my photos quite sporadically (for instance I missed a whole section between 00:07 A.M. and 00:43 A.M. which would coincide with the phases missing between the 6th and 7th moon in the chart) and I took some of the photos at different magnifications, so I didn't quite get all of the stages and didn't have the uniformity of the intervals necessary to do this properly.This gif was the result of my attempt at the resizeing and croping of the best 27 (I noticed Fred used 24 frames in his animation and he got every critical phase covered beautifully) out of a total of 70 photos taken in all.I actually got the idea to formalize this photo shoot into a chart and gif after seeing that the photos actually came out better than I expected and that I had captured enough of the phases (with a bit of luck) to attempt the gif at all.Next time I'll get a digital camara mounted to a small telesope ,USB it to my computer and take a foto every 10 min.That should give me results like Fred's .Thanks for the link it's the best lunar eclipse phase transition animation I've seen.