lunar eclipse

Last night there was a brilliant cloudless full moon, with the coconut fronds sparkling in the silver light, and a floodlit ocean. We woke at 3.20 am to view the total eclipse: the black sky was spangled with the milky way (a sight one never sees on Long Island, even in the relative isolation of Baiting Hollow) and the moon reduced to an eerie reddish glow. Here are a couple of pictures. Bearing in mind the almost total absence of light it's surprising that the little camera functioned at all.