My friend and former cohort Max McNeil, pinged me these close-up shots of the lunar eclipse from last night. According to his Flickr set, he’s using a Meade LX90 and taking photos by holding his small digital camera up to the 2″ eye piece.

It always amazes me that the backyard astronomer can easily now do what was not very long ago only in the hands of big-budget labs and universities.

Tags: astronomy, imagery, photography, science, space

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