Total Lunar Eclipse - January 09, 2001.

brilliant shot aadil, thanks.

beautiful!

Nice pic, Aadil.

ah, this is beautiful...;)

Great shot!what camera, what lens? :)

Great shot Aadil!

What the equipment you used to take this shot? I'm browsing at telescopes the last few days and would love to be able to take a shot like this myself.

o wow! super duper natural, aadil! great shot! loved it!

Well, thanks to all for all the good comments and am glad you all liked it. It was taken with a camera on my telescope with a tracking device so that the moon does not move in the long exposure of forty seconds required to capture the red hues of the totality during the eclipse. [FONT=Arial]Total Lunar Eclipse of 09 January, 2001. Photographed by Aadil Desai of the Amateur Astronomers' Association (Bombay) from Mumbai, India. Photographed through an Intes 150mm Dia, 1500mm FL, f/10, Maksutov-Cassegrain tracking telescope at prime focus using a Praktica MTL-5B SLR camera and Kodak 400 ISO colour print film. Exposure of 40 seconds from 203200 to 203240 UT.[/FONT] Cheers, Aadil.

Beautiful :D My pics of this event were absolute crap.