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December 21, 2010

Winter solstice eclipse

Some time ago I posted a series on the last visible spectacular total lunar eclipse [Feb. 2008, scroll down to entire series]. Now in Florida over the Christmas break, last night I managed to stay up into the wee hours of 2 am to 5 am (EST) to get some shots of the unusual winter solstice eclipse. A series of four images is below. Officially, winter solstice occurred at 6:38 pm this evening. Happy solstice!!

2:18 am 12-21-2010
Part-way to totality

3:18 am 12-21-2010
Mid totality

4:05 am 12-21-2010
Just after totality

4:45 am 12-21-2010
Almost over

Posted by The Owl at 21:07. Filed under: Nature photography

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Posted by Il-jaLytkin on February 11, 2011 at 03:52

These are great pics! I just found this post looking for images of the latest full moon in Maine, the so-called 'supermoon'. Hope you post some images if you took them!

Posted by Maine pellet stoves on March 20, 2011 at 19:19

Thanks! I did capture a couple of frames on Friday evening. However, here in Iowa I don't have along the DSLR with the better glass....

Posted by The Owl on March 20, 2011 at 19:49

WOW this is spectacular, and beautiful!!

Posted by Wayne Foote on March 25, 2011 at 11:28


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