No clouds, no wind. So.... here we go:

Last bit of sunlight on the moon before it went into the full umbra. 1200mm Mak f/9 4s

Ozone in the upper stratosphere gives the edge of the shadow a turquoise color. 300mm f/4 0.5s

This is at the point of maximum eclipsification. 300mm f/4 2s

This was the first time I tried using my Maksutov spotting scope as a lens for eclipse photography. A few lessons learned: With a focal length of 1200mm (1920mm effective with my small-sensor DSLR), the whole moon doesn't quite fit in frame. A slightly smaller lens would be better (or a full-frame sensor camera). Also, with a fixed aperture of f/9, the lens is too slow for a full lunar eclipse. It was pretty good when there was still a bit of sun on the moon, but once we were into the umbra, I had to pump the shutter speed down so low that the motion of the moon in the frame made all shots blurry. It was, however, a great scope for visually observing the eclipse. I think next time I'll bring this, but not hook a camera up to it.

As usual, I had a hell of a time finding good infinity focus manually with my f/300 lens. I had to pan over to the lights across the valley and do my best to focus those, then pan back to the moon and hope nothing slipped. I took about 200 photos and I'd say that at least half of them are poorly focused. I sure could go for some 20Da live focus action right about now.

Also, I borrowed a second camera body from Christina because A) hers has more megamapixels and B) I wanted to be able to have the Mak and my 300 configured simultaneously. This plan failed for 2 reasons: I only have one tripod (and it sucks), and Christina doesn't keep her batteries charged. In the end, Christina's camera ran out of batteries right at the outset. However, it was attached to the Mak which wasn't of much use once the shadow set in anyway. So no biggie there.