Total Lunar Eclipse November 8, 2003
I viewed this eclipse with my wife Sherry and friends at our home in Wayside Maryland.
William E. Rison
Partial phase (before totality)
  Eclipse began at 6:32 PM EST.

All pictures were taken using my Vixen FL102S Fluorite APO refractor.
Partial phase Partial phase partial combined
6:30 PM EST
1/125 second

 6:47 PM EST
1/125 second
 7:06 PM EST
  1/90 second
 7:22 PM EST
1/90 second
partial phase partial phase partial phase partial phase
7:23 PM EST
2 seconds
 7:24 PM EST
1/180 second
 		7:44 PM EST
2 seconds
 		7:56 PM EST
2 seconds
Total phase
  Totality began at 8:06 PM EST and ended at 8:30 PM EST.  Mid eclipse was at 8:18 PM EST.  Totality lasted for  24 minutes.
total
Total total
  8:07 PM EST
3 seconds

 		Mid-Eclipse
8:18 PM EST
6 seconds

 		8:28 PM EST
4 seconds
Partial phase (after totality)
  Eclipse ended at 10:04 PM EST.

partial parital partial
8:33 PM EST
6 seconds		 8:38 PM EST
4 seconds		 8:39 PM EST
2 second
Photography Data:
Vixen FL102S fluorite APO refractor telescope, 920mm focal length, f/9
Nikon D100 digital camera, ISO 200, 6 megapixels
Ulead PhotoImpact 8 software
Equipment
  I used a Vixen FL102S fluorite refractor.  The telescope was attached to a Celestron CGE mount.   The observatory is from Sirius observatories of Australia.  Visual only observing was also done using a Vixen BT80M-A binocular telescope.
BT80M-A

telescope


Vixen FL102S (right picture)
102mm (4") fluorite APO refractor
920mm focal length f/9

Vixen BT80M-A (left picture)
80mm (3") achromatic refractor binocular telescope
900mm F.L. f/11

Celestron CGE GOTO equatorial mount

Sirius Home model observatory, 7 1/2 feet diameter
Eclipse Information
   Charts showing the timing of eclipse events and sky location of moon at mid-eclipse.
visibility chartSky chart
November 4, 2004