Lunar Eclipse of January 20, 2000

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The above photo was taken on January 20, 2000 at 11:24 PM CST from the Fort Worth
Astronomical Society's dark sky site near Boyd, TX. It is a 1 second exposure on Fuji 800 film,
taken in alt-azimuth mode through my 10" f/6.3 LX200 (zenith is up). It was taken about one
minute after the moon began exiting the umbra (the darkest part of the Earth's shadow).

This photo was taken at 11:11 PM, 13 minutes before the top photo, while the eclipse
was still total. It is a 3-minute exposure through a 50mm lens at f/2.8 on a "barn door"
tracking mount. The Praesepe (M44), or Beehive Cluster, is visible in the middle
of a triangle of stars just below and slightly to the left of the moon.