Once in a Blue Moon

[ColinM]

Well I guess that planning & practice are the secret ingredients for a successful moonshot.

I did neither - in fact I hadn't planned to get up for it (I got "persuaded"). As others may have reported, the light levels got so low that achieving any sort of reliable focus was a lottery. In retrospect, maybe I should have tried to focus on the stars as I think they were brighter.

Plus the small amount of "play" between my 300mm, TC14 and D300 that doesn't normally affect daytime shots became apparent when shooting exposures of 2-10 seconds.
There: excuses over:

[ColinM]

Actually a set of transition shots would have been far more interesting, as there was a bright crescent on one side as the eclipse built.

Sadly this had disappeared by the time I worked out the setup I needed. And it was already 03:45am on a work day, so waiting for the process to repeat on the second side wasn't very appealing.