Lunar eclipse Tuesday/Wednesday

jim_1 (Zone 5B)

12 years ago

Where I live, in the prairie of Illinois, I should have a good view between 5:00 a.m. and 6:25 a.m.

It is termed a 'blood red' moon. Should be interesting.

Here is a link that might be useful: Look where you are for times.

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carabubble
12 years ago
Thanks for posting this. Where I live I should be able to see it about the time I usually get up in the morning. I'll set my alarm to go off a little earlier tomorrow.
murraysmom Zone 6a OH
12 years ago
Yes, thanks for posting this. Now I know when and where to look!
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rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
12 years ago
I really love watching nighttime sky events, when possible. I won't be able to see much of this, because by that time the moon is hanging pretty low in the western sky.....and we have a substantial treeline and a street lamp across the street. Darn it. I'll still check it out, though.
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12 years ago
I'd forgotten there would be another blood moon again this year. I stayed up last time and got some pictures. I was too lazy to look for my tripod and don't have a DSLR so mine pictures weren't the best, but WOW was it awesome to see.
It was so interesting to see it change from a normal colored moon to red. It sure was cold though! I about froze taking the pictures.
If I remember right the little dot was mars.
We live in the country and have a porch right outside the master suite so that's where I took the pictures from. It was redder in real life.
kayjones
12 years ago
I just had the privilege of seeing it - BEAUTIFUL!
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12 years ago
It wasn't red when I saw it. Cool anyway.
socks
12 years ago
Just....fantastic photo.

I'm happy I saw it about 4 this morning. Lovely, interesting.
bob_cville
12 years ago
We had a pretty good view of it earlier when it was a partial lunar eclipse at around 5:30 but as it proceeded towards totality it also proceeded towards the horizon, and was obscured by tall trees in our back yard.
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12 years ago
I woke about 4 a.m. and thought that the moonlight wasn't as bright in our bedroom as it had been. I caught the beginning of the eclipse, over the top left portion of the moon. I watched until I could see only a scimitar of light at the far right side of the moon, then we got *cloud cover*! Phooey. Back to bed with cold feet.

I didn't see a very bright copper. I wonder if our atmosphere got a bit cleaned up during the no-fly days after the air control fire. Maybe I just couldn't see it at its' peak.

Humbling experience.
Sue_va
12 years ago
Bob, I clicked on Jim's link and saw that you should be able to see it at 6:55 a.m., and wondered if you did. We here may have been able to, but I wasn't awake in time.

At about 7:15 last night we had a tremendous lightening/thunder storm. Huge, beautiful pinky/orangy flashes covering every inch of the sky, but heavy winds. I have DIRECTV and it went off for a very few minutes and came right back on.
morz8 - Washington Coast
12 years ago
No moon to view after a very full and bright scene last night - we're completely blanketed in dense fog since then. Coastal Washington.
Charlee_MO
12 years ago
Great picture, just! Thanks for posting it.

I saw the full moon but not the eclipse.

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bob_cville
12 years ago
Once the moon dropped behind the trees I could either have walked up our hill, or climbed up on the roof or just gone back to bed. I chose plan "c". :-)

A co-worker was up and heading into work around then, and she said the big red moon was just above the horizon and several people had pulled over onto the shoulder to take pictures of it.
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12 years ago
Thank you Socks and Charlee. It looked so much better in person, but I'm thrilled I at least got some fairly good pix.

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