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The lunar eclipse starts at 0100 until 0152 UT on 21 Feb 2008 (2200 EST or 1900 PST on 20 Feb 2008). The totality will last for 52 minutes. We’ll have partial lunar eclipse this coming 16 August and 31 December 2009. Americans will have a total eclipse again on 20-21 December 2010. Yet to check for us.
*Americans have 3 total eclipses in less than a year and we had 2 as we’re not favoured this time.
I took the photos since the Moon entered penumbra and umbra to nearly total lunar eclipse. The atmospheric condition was not good this morning as the Moon was setting. In other words, the Moon was near the horizon.
To ease your hunger a little, I post a full Moon photo first. 
The lunar eclipse sequence is expected to be released tomorrow. Hope so…
Finally the photo is up. I didn’t photo the full lunar eclipse as I was just too sleepy to continue. I don’t want to fall on the road. 
If you want to take the photo of the red hue Moon during the total eclipse, you have to expose the photo for seconds.
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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