For those who have a lot of cloud cover, Columbus State University in Georgia has an excellent webcam here.
Thankfully no one in the 8404 household has to go to work or school tomorrow so we’re staying up to see it. Just stepped outside and it’s nearly 100%.
Me too, just got back inside. It’s 2:48 here in da Bronx. I froze a few things off and got to witness the nightly skunk commute from the park but it was worth it–the moon going to occlusion was beautiful! When I came out at 2:30 there was a crescent of bright silver left that gradually disappeared, and now there’s the slightest silver glow on one edge and an orange one on the bottom, where the “seas” are brighter. Wow.
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This is heaven for a geek like me. I have a set of 4x binoculars and the view is fantastic. Clear night, cold but not deathly so… conditions could scarcely be better. I’ll be up all night watching.
Bah. It’s a cloudy night here in northern Oregon. You could see something in the sky if you squint in the right direction and wait for the clouds to leave a small window for the moon. I just spent the last five minutes outside waiting for the clouds to move over to the left just a little bit more. It didn’t.
Well, off to bed then.
Truly stunning. Not a cloud in the sky and I have no neighbors. All the stars are out. Super cold though. Homer alaska.
Sorta hazy in the Hudson Valley. Colors muted but I got to see it go out around 2:30am. Sort of a reddish-grey moon, lighter at the lower right.
Clouds just swept in and hid the moon, but not until it was almost complete. It was beautiful and totally worth standing in -18. My toes are sure hurting as they thaw, though. (I’m in Calgary, Alberta.)
Heavily depressed, there was too much cloud cover in that quarter for me to get anything more than a vague pale glow 
But I know it happened, and I am content.
Woke up at 1:30am, ready to have an eclipse viewing party. Sadly, the cloud cover prevented it from happening, so I chose to let the kiddos and hubby sleep. But it was a beautiful night, and I did get a good astronomy lesson out of it for the kiddos.
Then I was so excited I couldn’t go back to sleep. At least work has coffee. I may need it.
I had problems after that… as it approached totality it got a lot dimmer (duh!) thus requiring more exposure time and this was without a tripod. Also, we got clouds shortly after totality.
It was totally cool though.
I can’t believe it, but we actually got up at 3:10 in the morning and went outside! The moon looked very peculiar…as if it were made of reddish Styrofoam and hung on a ceiling we could almost have reached with a ladder. I told my daughter, “From the moon, the earth looks like a black spot in the sky with a corona of fire. So people on the moon are looking at us like, ‘whoa’. And we’re looking at the moon like, ‘it looks like a big ole…planet’.”
After that, we went indoors, where the dog had stolen most of my bed, and I lay awake thinking about Stephen King’s eclipse books and trying to mentally finish my Christmas shopping and figure out what I should wear to work today, etc. so that was the end of sleep really. But it was very cool.
I was conked out for the actual event, but came in to join the geek party just to say: awesome simile, dude.
It was very cloudy, but where I live a big hole opened up just around the beginning of totality, and we could see it just fine. Five minutes in, the clouds returned.
feeling old in 1960 I bought a Golden Book about the moon, which had a list of lunar eclipses into the far future - 1975, I think. It is depressing to thing that this one was far beyond that book’s horizon.
My back was spasming (still is) so there was no way I was getting up at 2am to go outside and across the street* to possibly see the eclipse. Any good pics anywhere?
I did see the moon on the way home earlier that night and it looked huge.
*Too many trees in my yard, can’t see the sky.