You know, it’s not often that I get excited about a partial lunar eclipse. Yes, the “near-perfect” alignment is cool, but it doesn’t get all that dark, and I just find myself wishing the event was a total eclipse.

Well, here’s an image I’m really jazzed about. It came to me (as Photo Editor) from one of our long-time imagers, Anthony Ayiomamitis, who lives in Athens, Greece. When I look at his image, I can almost feel the Moon moving through Earth’s shadow.

For more of Anthony’s images, check out the December issue of Astronomy. We’ll feature six pages of his best work and some information on him as well.

We recently featured one of Anthony's images of the August 1, 2008, solar eclipse for Picture of the Day.