Lunar eclipse

[vaneramos]

The sky has cleared enough for me and Brenna to watch the lunar eclipse. The earth's shadow has taken a bite out of the lower half already. It will reach totality at 10:23 EDT. Hopefully the clouds will hold off. In another half hour we'll drive to the edge of town to take a good look through the binoculars. It's a balmy 7°C/45°F; couldn't ask for much nicer on a night in late October.

Comments

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

thank you for posting this! i had forgotten about it, but reading your post, ran out and watched the last 15 minutes or so, seeing the full eclipse before running back inside, frozen. beautiful!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Isn't it awesome? I love seeing the earth's small shadow move across the face of the moon. It gives me an unusual sense of the scale of things.

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

I just came back from seeing it. It's still mostly total, but the upper edge is begining to get brighter, and is a deep red. That was around quarter to 7:30 or so PDT. Tried to take a pic, but it was not bright enough without a super zoom of some sort. Oh well.

It's clear, but chilly out in Seattle thankfully. I had to go out to the street and look east to view it. Beautiful.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

We have had nothing but overcast skies for days on end, typical for Ontario this time of year. Amazingly, the clouds started to thin out just as the eclipse was beginning. By the time we drove out to the edge of town, the sky had completely cleared and we had a good look at the stars, too.

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

The weather here is usually wet and rainy, but it's been dry for the past day or two. In fact, it was gorgeously sunny all day, but didn't get out of the 50's (F.) I don't think however. Typical temps for this time of year.

Sadness

[perkk.livejournal.com]

Full cloud coverage here.

Re: Sadness

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that. I just went downstairs to look again and the sky has clouded over, so we only had a brief respite.

[eloquentwthrage.livejournal.com]

I forced myself to go out every commercial break and take a picture of it. Worked until it was completely darkened, then I couldn't get it in frame. Waited a bit for it to start brightening again, and got a couple more pics, but some clouds started to roll in so I called it a night.

It turned a goldish orange down here in NJ. Not the blood red I'd hoped for, but very pretty nonetheless...

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I would love to see some of those photos. None of my friends have posted any. My camera simply was not designed for that kind of shot.

The moon here went through all kinds of shades. Before the end it turned a dark ashy grey and was almost invisible.

[eloquentwthrage.livejournal.com]

It will take me a week or so to get them up, but I'll let everyone know when they're ready for viewing!

Little gallery of eclipse photos

[leafshimmer.livejournal.com]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/photogalleries/nationworld446/thumbnails.html

Re: Little gallery of eclipse photos

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Oh, very nice, thank you. Maybe by 2007 I'll have a camera capable of taking photos like these.