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Sleeping, it wasn't. I saw the 'blood' moon and the eclipse, sadly I couldn't photograph the red colour, which was actually more a brown colour.
Guess what I was doing last night?
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no blood moon here
and no eclipse either
just a full moon.
Stupidity is a capital offense. A summary not indictable.
Here!
I'll share a photo I found online last night.
~And so it goes...
We couldn't see anything -
We couldn't see anything - drizzling, low ceiling overcast, reflecting all the light pollution. Solid white sky.
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
I was mad enough...
...to set my alarm for 3am, then grab a tripod and camera and venture out into the dark street (most streetlights in my area are turned off between midnight and 5am Mon-Fri, an hour later at the weekends, to save the council some money). I also discovered a few locals still have milk delivered by a milkman - at around 3:45am (ugh!)
The results are at the end of this link - three of the supermoon before heading to bed (at various exposures), a couple of the stars and several of the eclipsed moon itself - two without zoom, half a dozen zoomed in.
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Moonwatching
I was also one of those able to get up in the middle of the night to watch an amazing sight. I spent over two hours sat in my garden in the wee small hours, very well wrapped up with a large thermal mug of tea.
In eastern England we were blessed with a completely clear sky and at 01.00, when I got up, it was bright enough to read comfortably outside. By 02.00 when the edge of the Earth's shadow started to eat away at Moon's disc (from the 11 o'clock position as I was seeing it) it was already very noticably dimmer. Even though the Moon's disc seems fully lit, at that point it was already fully in the Earth's penumbra (partial shadow).
Over the next hour the full shadow crawled over the face of the Moon until finally, just after 03.00, the high mountains on the rim of the Moon's disc (at the five o'clock position) reluctantly gave up the last direct rays of sunlight and, finally, I could see the muddy orange "blood" Moon.
At about 03.20 a thick bank of cloud came across and completely blocked out any view at which point I decided that I was cold enough and retired back to bed.
Oldfashioned.
it was perfect
Here in Yorkshire but I ended up sleeping through most of it! I woke about five and caught the clearing of the eclipse although I couldn't get much of a picture, oh well, maybe next time!
Madeline Anafrid Bell
I was in San Francisco
so the eclipse was early in the evening and visible in a clear sky. No good photos though.
A red blur
I kept wandering out onto the porch to see if the clouds were cooperating. It must've been about midway thru the eclipse that I saw it shining through them, a reddish dot in the middle of a white dot. It was enough to tell something was going on with the moon. This is the 2nd blood moon that happened. And it's not like I'm in a place (Nevada) that gets a lot of precipitation. But at least I somehow always get a good show when the annual meteor showers come to town, and it's nice and dark here at night for stargazing, with I think one streetlight about four blocks away.
hugz 2 all, Laika
What borders on stupidity?
Canada and Mexico.
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No luck here...
St. Louis had more-or-less solid cloud cover the entire time. I could, at times, *vaguely* get a hint of the curve of the moon through the clouds, but overall, no luck... *sigh*
Blood Moon Bike Ride
We went for a ride and were out for pretty much the entire eclipse. Fat bikes on gravel farm roads; it was great fun!
Janice