Trying to capture the Blood Moon

I played with the settings on the new camera all night to figure out how to take moon pictures.  I do not have a tripod or an ideal lens (just the 18-55mm it came with), but these were the best I could come up with....

(Click on it to see the full size)

The trick was to set it to F11, ISO 100, a 2-second timer delay (to keep me from shaking the camera more from the button-pushing), zoom in on the moon and let the automatic focus do its thing (it is far better than I am), and then to adjust the shutter speed based on how much light the moon was giving off at any particular time.  I'm particularly excited about the full moon photos, since I've never been able to capture that kind of detail before!

This was my worst photo, where I set the shutter speed so slow that I thought the camera was malfunctioning and I stopped holding it still out of frustration.  Oops.

It has its charms... nice October-appropriate colors.

In other news, spending so much time staring at the sky appears to have kicked these Braxton Hicks contractions up a notch or five.  Here's hoping that our little spawn doesn't take too much longer to get here.

I hope you enjoyed the lunar eclipse as much as I did!

Do you have any moon photos to share?