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About these photos
These photos were shot directly through the 10" LX-200 main optics at prime focus, reduced to f/6.3 using the Lumicon Giant Easyguider. Without the GEG, the moon would not fit in a single frame.
This is the tail end of the eclipse. As you can see from the thumbnails, the shadow of the earth is already leaving the moon, and the full moon is starting to return to its full brightness. These photos were shot over the span of ~45 minutes. Some of them were single frames, and some are a digital stack of 5-10 photos. To be honest, I don't really see much of a difference between the single frames and the stacks, but there was a little more detail brought out with the stack.
This set of photos were over-exposed (approximately 1-2 seconds) so you can see the darker portion of the moon. The darker portion of the moon is still under the earth's shadow, but you can see it due to the reflection of the sun's light from the earth. This is called earthshine.
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These two photos were shot at normal exposure (~1/250 second). You can't see the eclipsed portion of the moon; you can only see the portion of the moon that is not eclipsed.
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