There was a full lunar eclipse tonight (well, almost full — I think the sun held on to a teeny little barely-noticable sliver), and I managed to snap a few photos.
My camera lacks manual controls, so the inconsistency of the following pictures is from me mucking about with various settings seeing if I could do better. They’re in chronological order, left to right, top to bottom.
The very last one is the darkest it got, and it was actually darker to the eyes than you see in the picture here. As is typical in these eclipses, the moon didn’t really vanish, the rest of it just became very, very dim, and the camera manages to pick it up better than the eyes alone do.
So tell me… Is it the camera, or the user that’s responsible for these great pics? :-)