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Total Lunar Eclipse in the wee hours

I set my alarm for 2:15am this morning to observe and image the total lunar eclipse visible from Australia. It started at around 2am and finished just before 5:30am, with totality from 3am, to around 4:20. This ABC News article gives a nice overview and a table with the relevant times.

I observed the last part of the partial phase and the early part of totality, with the unaided eye and 11×50 binoculars. I also took some images (above) and a seven minute time lapse (compressed to 14 seconds) near the onset of totality with my Seestar S50. A longer time lapse was impacted by cloud. Still, I was happy with what I saw and imaged, if a bit low on sleep. Clouds encroaching during the later stages of the eclipse.

The tail end of the eclipse through cloud (iPhone 13 images)

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