This series of
photographs was taken between 10.30 and 11.00 pm on 3rd March in Somerset using one of
two camera lenses fitted to an MX 716 CCD camera. Exposure times were a few hundredths
of a second.
In the first three pictures you can still see some sunlight on the upper
left part of the Moon's disc but this has almost disappeared in the two larger pictures where
the shadow of the Earth almost completely covers the Moon's surface. The Moon looked a
pinkish red due to the light from the Sun having passed through the Earth's atmosphere
before striking the Moon.
