Okay, so it’s freezing cold here, but the sky has been remarkably clear tonight. So we went out to look at the eclipse. It’s beautiful, and as I write this, the Moon is moving out of totality. It’s still a pretty brick-red color and as it moves out of the shadow, that color will fade over the next hour. Now, I’m sure that there are lots of really decent astrophotographers out there who will be posting their stunning images of the event.I am not one of those astrophotographers, but I was still bitten by the camera bug and decided to see what my little HP Photosmart could do. So, I attached it to a little $9.00 hiker’s tripod I bought on ThinkGeek.com a while back, and set the camera for no flash, biggest zoom, and high resolution. This is the result.

Not stunning, but hey, it does show that if I can come up with an image of the Moon that isn’t TOO blurry (given the long exposure, etc.), then anybody with a little camera and a little tripod can do it, too. Just the same, be sure and do some searching on the Web over the next few days for “lunar eclipse photos” to see what the folks with the big cameras can do!