Lunar eclipse through Powershot S3IS

Snaps of lunar eclipse on the day of Holi...

Somehow I managed to get up early at around 4 45am...

Went out with camera looking for a suitable location. I roamed through the campus but street lights made my task difficult.

Finally I decided to seat on ground in the car parking area. I had never tried taking snaps of such a faint object before. i had habit of using the "auto" mode only. But that auto mode was not at all able to focus on this "object" so did some experimentation with the settings and finally managed to take some snaps. These are not the full snaps. u have cut the portion containing the moon. rest is all black.

snap 1 taken at around 5 30 am...

Snap 2 5 35 am....

snap3 5 38 am

Snap 4 5:45...

Snap 5 5:52

Snap 6 5:58....

Snap 7 6:04... by this time i was bored... and decided to return to my room in the guest house.

before returning to the room i took this snap...

Snap 8 on return i tried to take some snaps through the glass window of the room.

This was the last snap i took before i slept again....