Lunar Eclipse May 2022 Animation from Texas

[Louis D]

I took a series of photos roughly every 5 minutes starting from the beginning of the umbral stage to the peak of totality and then went to bed.  I just took images with my cellphone camera held up to a zoom eyepiece in my AT 72ED telescope on an alt-az mount.  It had trouble locking onto both focus and exposure sometimes, so I had to go with what I got.  The images aren't super great, but I was going for the shadow changes rather than sharp details.  I roughly cropped and rotated them (thus the occasional white edges) in Photoshop Elements and then composited them into an animated gif using GIFMaker.  I hope y'all like it.

[bomberbaz]

I did similar back when we last had one Louis, although never managed to animate mine

[Louis D]

I can fully understand how some folks can spend hours or even days editing astro images.  I specifically tried to avoid getting sucked down that hole; thus the unpolished look.  I'm not trying to get my image on APOD after all.

[bomberbaz]

16 minutes ago, Louis D said:

I can fully understand how some folks can spend hours or even days editing astro images.  I specifically tried to avoid getting sucked down that hole; thus the unpolished look.  I'm not trying to get my image on APOD after all.

I get what you mean, I have just faffed around for a half hour trying to stitch mine from 2015 together and got nothing but mad and a headache