lrargerich's photostream  

The moon doesn't look red/orange during eclipses only a few minutes after moonrise the atmosphere produces distortions making the moon look distorted in shape and color. This was taken 5 minutes after moonrise.

A -7 magnitude Iridium flare in the constellation Pyxis. The bright star near the flare is Gamma Pyxidis.

I used calsky.com to predict the flare, then Stellarium to draw a sketch of the area of the sky where the flare was happening and I took several exposures with the camera recognizing the stars until I was sure to be in the right spot. With this technique I can try longer focal lengths getting brighter flares. This one was shot at 320mm.

As seen after sunset on January 27th from Mercedes, Argentina. Jupiter is on the right and Venus on the left. The glow of sunset is still visible at the horizon.

A daytime photo of the crescent moon on January 28th 2012

A very red sky just before dawn from the coast of Miramar, Argentina.