I stayed up late last night to watch the eclipse. Here are some of the photos I took. First of all, the moon at around 10.30pm Sunday (before anything had started):
Now, the moon at about 1.20-am Monday morning. There was a hint of something in the top left, though it isn’t easily seen in the photo:
This next one is at around 1.40am. Definitely something happening now but still not easily discernible on the photo:
Now, the appearance at about 2.10am Monday. Absolutely no mistaking it now:
This one is from around 2.30am:
This is at 2.55am. I’d left it a bit long and it had progressed further than I expected:
I noticed that although the reddish tinge was visible to the naked eye, I was focusing on the lit part of the moon so was getting quite a fast exposure – meaning that the red part wasn’t showing up. This next image is from the same time (2.55am), but with my focus on the darker part. The lit part is over-exposed slightly as a result:
By now, it had almost reached totality and over-exposure wasn’t as much of a problem. This is from around 3.15am.
Here’s another from the same time, with the focus shifted slightly:
And finally around 3.40am. I couldn’t stay up any longer as I had to go to work in the morning (note that exposure time was so long you can even see a couple of stars just to the right):
And another different exposure from the same time:
If I ever do anything like this again, I’ll check to make sure forecast times are in BST and not GMT – everything was an hour later than I’d expected!