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This is the December 21, 2010 Lunar Eclipse; approximately 3:25 AM, from my condo complex parking lot.

Tamron 300mm f/2.8 lens; Canon Digital Rebel 300D; 0.5 secs at ISO 400.

-- Bob Christmas

Lunar Eclipse Dec. 21, 2010 by Bob Christmas

Watched the Eclipse from 2:25 to 2:50 this morning. At 2:37 I was looking through my binos and a brilliant meteor passed directly in front of the moon. It was startling as the contrast of the white flash against the orange background made me blink. We had partially clear skies in brantford and the seeing at times was very good. Easily saw the 3 globs in Auriga. M35 in Gemini and the moon just fit into the same field of view in my binos. Hope any who stayed up had clear skies! By the way, the time on the site is off by one hour so it looks like I posted this before it actually happened.
Follow up: It turns out that there was a meteor shower scheduled for last night; the Ursids. I guess I just got lucky being in the right place at the right time!

Don't forget...

It's the first time we have had a Lunar Eclipse on the Winter Solstice
since the invention of the telescope.

It's very late Monday night, (Tuesday Morning) and you can see it from anywhere.