Tom's Astronomy Blog: I’ve been waiting for this eclipse with great anticipation. I am starting to get settled in to a new location and my skies seem to be nice and dark. I probably won’t have the big scope up for a while but I certainly can try to get a decent picture of the eclipse. I will be participating in the Globe@Night project for October. You can go to Globe@Night pretty much anytime to see how your skies compare in a measurable way to other locations. In my case I will compare this place to my former residence of 25 years. I saw light pollution at my old location degrade my skies by about almost a full magnitude and it happened in just a couple of years. So Globe@Night is great idea and it is so well done, if you haven’t heard about it before, I will recommend it highly – it is an especially good project for the kids that mom and dad can do too. Anyway, to get back on track, I have always found taking a decent picture of the moon with a SLR and no filter kind of hit or miss. So this time I went to YouTube ...