This was the first total eclipse I saw in my life. It was pretty hopeless before midnight, because of the overcast sky. Please don’t tell me I had to wait until 2007 for the next total eclipse!! (we couldn’t see all 2006 eclipse in Europe). So, from 2:15am onwards (when the moon was start moving into Earth’s shadow) I was sitting in front of my PC, mourning the English weather. At 3am, looked out from my window, towards southwest where the moon was hanging. I SAW IT!!! I could see it within the broken clouds from time to time, it was lovely!! In my view, it looked mysterious and scary, but to be honest it just looked reddish. I brought all my camera equipment, started to capture so-called “blood moon”. Over the course of 2 hours, clouds and haze threatened to spoil the event, and I kept asking myself how much exposure I needed. My film camera sucks!! Without a light meter what I could do was taking a lot of frames, and I discovered later that the eclipse moon was much darker than a full moon, 1 second of exposure was a minimum, and a total of 20 frames were wasted. Nevertheless, I managed to take some long exposures. I hope they would be okay when they return from lab.
Photo by Bob Colwell
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