Partial lunar eclipse in Stockholm

_MAL6247.jpg, originally uploaded by Michael A. Lowry.

Tonight on the way home from dancing, I thought the moon looked a bit funny. Then I remembered that there was to be a lunar eclipse tonight! As soon as I stepped in the door of my apartment, I grabbed my telephoto lens and tripod, and walked right back outside again. I snapped a bunch of photos of the eclipse, including several sets of bracketed exposures with ±1, 2, 3, and 4 EV (9 exposures per set). I’m still trying to figure out how best to combine them. Any tips?

Lunar transit as seen from STEREO satellite

I was catching up on old APOD photos when I came across this amazing movie of the recent lunar transit as seen from the STEREO satellite.

It's an amazing view of the two most familiar objects in our sky: the moon passing in front of the sun. I find this sort of view of the sun just captivating. Not the perfect disc envisioned by our ancesestors, our our mother star Sol is nonetheless beautiful in its own way.