Taking these pictures were physically exhausting. It was quite humid and the mosquitoes were having a party biting by black ass! But it was worth the effort. I took as many as 200 pictures and most of them were blur thanks to cloud cover. Next time I'm going to the dry zone!! I used Dr. Ray's Meade ETX-90 telescope. With my Canon EOS 350D mounted on it, I could not photograph steep angles as the Camera constrains the telescope side mounts. So I had to make use of my Canon AF 75-300mm lens.

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Following are pictures taken by various astronomers and photographers. I have obtained permission to publish their pictures. Copyrights apply. Please do not download or print without their permission.

Anthony Ayiomamitis

• Location: Northeastern outskirts of Athens, Greece
• Optics: AP 160 f/7.5 StarFire EDFAP 1200GTO GEM Canon EOS 300D
• Comments: The year's fourth eclipse and second lunar eclipse went out with a bang, for Luna put on an impressive display during the course of approximately three hours involving changes in phase, intensity and colouration. It is most unfortunate that a good portion of western Europe was overcast with heavy clouds or rains. In spite of the fact that the depth of the partial eclipse was 81%, a hint of red was visible in the eclipsed disk well before maximum totality and when the disk was only 50% within the umbral shadow. At maximum, the eclipsed disk was quite dark with only a trace of light and, as indicated by the attached photo at maximum, a long exposure (3.2 seconds at ISO 200) was required.

Elias Chasiotis

• Location: Markopoulo, Greece
• Optics: William Optics Zenithstar 105, Canon 450D
• Comments: The fact that most of the moon was covered by earth's umbra gave the impression of a near total lunar eclipse. Just some minutes after maximum, a star appeared from the eclipsed limb.

Franck Vaissiere

• Location: Fronton, South West of France
• Optics: MTO CA 11 telescope with Canon 350D
• Comments: A very clear partial Moon eclipse, subtil light red in shadowed area in telescopic view. It was amazing shooting Moon in cloud holes as weather was partially clouded. Anyway a great astronomical evening!