Total Eclipse

Sure, it's not like a solar eclipse where you could damage your eyes or gear. It's perfectly safe to watch and film the whole thing.
 
The light reflected from a full moon is about 120th the amount of light directly from Sun. The eclipse in this instance (while it is in full-eclipse) is reflected light from the earth. When it reflects back to the earth, it's much less (and leans heavily to the red-end of the spectrum). It shouldn't damage sensors or anything - the largest problem being that the moon could blow out to white during the full-moon portion of the eclipse, but closing your iris for that portion should suffice, and opening it a bit should capture the eclipse itself nicely.
 
dude, i filmed it last night... its VERY hard to keep that bugger in the shot it will move out of the shot every 5 mins!! the whole thing lasts 3 hours... it made me sad
 
a lunar eclipse is only the earths shadow covering the moon it would do no damage it would be actually safer than filming the moon by itself becase it will be less light
 
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QLV5RDIq0Rk

Shot probably 30 minutes of the eclipse and made a 15 second video of it (timelapse). My main problem was, as vader mentioned, was keeping the moon in frame. Every 5 minutes or so it would drift out, in which case I had to reframe my shot (hence the fades/repositioning in the youtube video).

Also, I apologize the quality being crap, but I had to compress twice before even uploading to youtube to get the speed I wanted. It gets the idea across though.
 
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