8 Oct 2014 Lunar Eclipse

About 40 minutes before totality:
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Setup at the edge of the school parking lot:
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20 minutes prior to totality:
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2 minutes prior to totality:
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About 9 minutes after totality:
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20 minutes prior to peak eclipse (moon furthest into the Earth’s shadow):
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Note the sky turning blue around the moon…

Just before packing up.  Sunrise was imminent, and I couldn’t resolve the moon well enough in the scope to get any more decent pictures:
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