Tonight as you may have noticed, we had a total eclipse of the moon. Not as spectacular as an eclipse of the sun, but pretty impressive nonetheless.
Braving the elements, your editor spent an evening in freezing cold wales snapping photos of the moon with his rusty old Nikon and despite not having a particularly good zoom, (18-55 was never designed for taking photos of the solar system), or the ability to focus particularly well in the dark, still managed to produce some nifty photos.
No post processing was done, they are the colours that the moon actually was when they were taken, the first at approximately 20:00, and the second at 23:00. I used a shutter speed of 0.2 seconds with an aperture of f8 for the full moon, and a shutter speed of 15 seconds for the eclipsed moon. (If you're wondering, it took several 10's of photos and experimenting to get the correct settings).
