One of the benefits of travelling to Maui for the transit of Venus in June, 2012, is that it also afforded a superb view of the partial lunar eclipse of 2012-06-04, with the moon near the meridian, with the opportunity to capture some images of an eclipse that was not easily visible from the mainland Americas. Although this wasn't a particularly deep eclipse, this composite image showing the position of the moon every 20 minutes clearly shows the outline of Earth's shadow, the umbra, on the surface of the moon as it passed through it. Celestron Super C8 Plus Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope, fork mount with Byers Drive, at f/6.3. Canon EOS 20D DSLR. Exposures:All 1/1600 second at ISO 800.

This image has been published multiple times in Astronomy Magazine.