It’s going to happen on 2016UT 3 March 2007. The great Total Lunar Eclipse! Yes, I have the luck this time but the sky now is so heavily covered by clouds. 
At 2016UT, it is entering penumbra. At this time, it’s not observable yet. At 2130UT, the partial lunar eclipse begins and it’s entering umbra. At 2244UT, the Total Lunar Eclipse begins! The mid-eclipse happens at 2321UT, it must be the climax of this event. The total lunar eclipse ends at 2358UT and the partial eclipse ends at 0112UT, entirely out of penumbra.
Ok, so what do you need for this event? Naked eye is more than enough. If you have a long focal length lens that can be mounted on a DSLR or a camera with high optical zoom (Don’t use digital zoom please.) or even a planetary CMOS camera capable mounting onto the back cell of your telescope doing prime focus astrophotography, they will help you a lot to extend the memory of the event later.
Where is the skymap as usual? No, no skymap this time. Just find the Moon. I am going to take the sequence photo this time. I failed to do so last time. I’ll test my equipments later.
For the defination of penumbra and umbra, please look at Umbra & Penumbra
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