HAMPSHIRE: Echo readers catch the weekend’s lunar eclipse on camera . . .
IT was the UK’s first chance in three years to see a total eclipse of the moon and thousands of Hampshire residents made sure they saw it.
For almost one-and-a-half hours on Saturday night the moon vanished behind the earth’s shadow after first turning an eerie shade of red.
And while scores of people gazed skywards to see the moon disappear, dozens more also pointed their cameras at the heavens to record the moment for posterity.
For those who missed the spectacle there’s only a year until the next UK eclipse is due, on February 21, 2008.

By Lynette Sweet from Dibden		By Mervyn Ryan.		Colin Lee took a picture of the eclipse from his back garden in Freemantle.
By Jack Pearce, aged 16, from Holbury.		From staff photographer Malcolm Nethersole		Picture from Tomasz Dyl