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After looking at the threads already on here I'm embarrased to post this, but I made the effort to get up at 0315 so I will. It was a very dark eclipse - the Moon was deep in the Earth's shadow. Having missed the early stages (I'd have loved to have seen it from start to finish but work............... you know) and not had the foresight to take the camera outside at moonrise to focus, I found focussing incredibly difficult. Tried autofocus, manual focus and live view but kept trying to 'tweek' it as I couldn't convince myself it was right. It was also slightly misty which didn't help (by the time I got up the second time it was thick fog). At 300mm I was getting slight trailing in the stars at 2 seconds so I chopped that to 1 second at iso 800.
Total lunar eclipse by Jan, on Flickr
Total lunar eclipse by Jan, on Flickr