I took pictures of the last eclipse, and in general was disappointed in how they came out. During totality the exposure times were long enough that the movement of the moon blurred the images, and even with a 12x zoom (equivalent to a 420mm lens on a regular 35mm camera) the moon was only filling about 20% of the frame.

I probably won't try it again unless someone (Mark? Dan?) can come up with some worthwhile suggestions.

I do have an 8" Celestron Newtonian reflector telescope, but it is bare-bones, no motor-drive or camera mount or anything. Maybe I'll just drag it out and watch things unfold and not try to photograph it.

tanstaafl.