Some pics for those interested. I was hoping for better results but I'm still reasonably happy, perhaps not so much with the quality of the pics but with the success of my planning. Using the known azimuth and altitude of the moon during the various stages of the eclipse I calculated a good spot in Sandton from where I could photograph the progression of the eclipse with the RMB building in the foreground. So I sat there from around 18:30 until 21:40, freezing my nuts off, and snapped a pic every 10 minutes, decreasing the interval to 5min during the umbral phase of the eclipse and here is the composite:
Here's a picture of the total eclipse taken at 22:20, just a few minutes past theoretical maximum eclipse. Notice how the stars immediately surrounding the moon are visible. These will, under normal circumstances, be completely drowned by the bright light of the moon.
And a picture of the half eclipsed moon taken at 23:30.
