the ASV held it's xmas star party to coincide with the lunar eclipse. so you can blame us for the bad weather :-).
it was truly bleak conditions.. we got dumped on in the afternoon just after i arrived and light rain with thunder and lightning (generally fairly distant though) in the evening. barely saw the moon until right on the end of totality. don't know how i managed to get focussed jumping from one star to the next as each disappeared cloud before i got it right. what a hobby!
http://philhart.com/content/lightnin...-december-2012
timelapse here:
http://philhart.smugmug.com/Astronom...086574_NDhJDC3
camera got rained on but the raindrops and condensation don't show up too bad until the end.
cheers
Phil