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QuietOne
04-26-2014, 05:39 PM
The forecast was mostly cloudy. This is as light as the cloud cover ever got.
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This was much more typical of the night, if the moon was visible at all.
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Part way in to the beginning of the eclipse.
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And just after the full eclipse. I hadn't expected to get this at all. The clouds had moved in and parked, with nothing visible since the time of the 3rd photo. I got a break in them long enough to get this, then they moved back in, this time for good.
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Best I can say about these is it proves I was awake and saw the eclipse, even if I did watch a portion of it on Stellarium instead (nifty program, and it changed the moon's color and everything)
Stellarium (http://www.stellarium.org/)

Randitola
05-10-2014, 10:55 PM
We were both up together then! :) Stellarium is a great program - I use it to control my Celestron telescope. I was a bit luckier than you as the clouds cleared up just long enough for me to get some shots.