Partial lunar eclipse

Images of the partial lunar eclipse, including the often neglected, penumbral phase. I used a Lumix DMC-FZ72 60x optical zoom (equivalent to F=1200mm in 35mm) bridge camera and captured between 30 and 100 frames in burst mode for each image. The frames were precisely cropped in Nicola's AstroCrop, stacked in Autostakkert! 3, wavelet processed in Registax 5.1 and post processed in the Gimp 2.10 and Affinity Photo. Imaging began at approximately maximum eclipse as the Moon was rising out of a murky sky.

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Close to maximum eclipse

The moon is fully illuminated again, but the penumbral shadow is still darkening the top right of the image of the Moon

The eclipse is now completely over

Steve Wainwright

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A Nikon D5100 DSLR with a 300mm lens was used to image the lunar eclipse

The Moon had a reddish hue because it had only just risen and was low in a hazy sky

Nicola Mackin

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I used a Sony A57 plus Tamron 18-250 lens at 250mm. I used the handheld night shooting mode.

Anne Startup

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Using a Panasonic Lumix FZ 2000 bridge camera

Sandra Stewart