Photos of the Partial Lunar Eclipse
7 September 2006

Photo by Tommie Jordaan, Kroonstad Astronomy Club. Taken with a Samsung D500 cellphone camera, through a home-made eyepiece from binocular components, with 30x magnification:

Photo by Gerrit Penning, ASSA Bloemfontein, prior to eclipse. Strong contrast adjustment and colour correction in yellow channel. The bright light is not the sun, it's the moon! Dust in the atmosphere brought out a distinct orange colour in the sky.