Pictures on this page were captured in France between les Moličres and Limours (Essonne). Unfortunately a cloudy layer coming from west masked the observation as one third of the moon had entered into earth shadow.
Equipment used for photography was composed of a MEADE LX10 8" telescope equipped with a 6.3 focal reducer and a CASIO QV4000 digital camera placed in afocal mode behind a 40 mm Super Plössl eyepiece.
Moon enters earth shadow at 4H03 local time (UT+2). This picture is captured 30 minutes later.
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Movie of the moon entering into earth
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This movie showing the shadow boarder progressing over lunar disk ends with the arrival of clouds. It is composed of 5 pictures captured on the basis of on picture every 4 minutes.
Totality begins at 5H14 local time (UT+2) in early daylight as the moon is less than 8 degrees over the horizon. The sky is very cloudy and the moon appears slightly between clouds. This 30 seconds exposure was captured 20 minutes after the beginning of totality.
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