I took this picture at 22:38, and regretfully posted it in several places along with the comment that needing to get up early the following morning, I could not stay up to watch the eclipse.
I then ended up staying up to watch the eclipse until some time within totality; and skipping school the following day.
These were all taken using my ancient non-AI Vivitar 85-205mm ƒ3.8 “Tele-Zoom” lens. (Nikon claims that non-AI lenses cannot be used with the D3200, but my D3200, this lens, my two equally-ancient non-AI Nikkor lenses, and I, all disagree.)
For all these pictures, I had the lens zoomed in to 205mm.
The first one, the camera was on a tripod, ISO was at 100, the shutter speed was 1/20 of a second, and the aperture was probably closed all the way down to ƒ22.
The next two were hand held, with the shutter at 1/60 of a second, the aperture at about ƒ11 or ƒ8, and ISO still at 100.
As the moon got close to totality, and I found it getting too dim for those settings, I ran back in and got my tripod. Generally trying to stay with ISO 100 to keep sensor noise to a minimum, and trying not to open my aperture up too wide for the sake of sharpness (this old Vivitar lens gets some odd aberrations and unsharpnesses when opened all the way up to ƒ3.8) I mostly experimented with different shutter speeds and small variations in aperture and ISO. That last picture, in totality, was taken at 5 seconds, with the ISO at 100, and the aperture probably still somewhere around ƒ11 to ƒ5.6.
If I could have anything different for these shots, I'd have liked to have had a longer lens. At 205mm, the moon takes up a very small part of the frame, hence these 720-pixel square pictures cropped out of the original 6016×4000 pixel frames.
