by Rod Pommier
Telescope/Mount: Celestron Super C8 Plus Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with fork mount Byers drive with f/6.3 focal recucer-corrector. Camera: Canon EOS 20D DSLR. Exposures: 1/1600 second at ISO 800, all exposures.
One of the benefits of traveling to Maui, Hawaii for the transit of Venus is that it also afforded and excellent view of the partial lunar eclipse of 2012-06-04, with the moon near the meridian and fairly high in the sky. Although this wasn't a particularly deep partial eclipse, this composite of images taken every 20 minutes clearly shows the outline of Earth's shadow, the umbra, on the surface of the moon.
One of the benefits of traveling to Maui