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117 frames taken 1 minute apart with 1/20s exposure through a 40mm F/5.6 lens, iso100. Shot between ca 1am and 3am early morning on Thursday 16 July 2009. I've also combined all the images into one, using either all (1 minute interval) or some (2 and 3 minutes) of the frames: This is clearly worth [...]

In contrast to the recent partial solar eclipse southern Finland didn't see much of this evenings partial lunar eclipse. It wasn't outright raining, but the amount of water in the air prevented any view of the moon, eclipsed or not. It should have looked something like this.

Pooling our hardware resources together in the lab, we now have a 102 mm F/9.8 (f=1000 mm) refractor on an EQ6 equatorial mount and either a Canon 20D or a Canon 400D to shoot with. When one camera is coupled to the scope the other one can simultaneously take a wide-field photo. Did not bother [...]