The lunar eclipse is starting - 5:32PM CST. Looking east, over Lake Michigan, on a clear, cold night, it’s a beautiful sight. I’m going to take a telescope outside when it gets closer to totality.
Totality, from my vantage point, will be 7:06PM CST to 7:30PM.
Sorry, my webcam is pointing the wrong direction, and won’t pick it up.
This is the last total lunar eclipse that will be visible from earth until April, 2007.
Mr. Moon, where goest thou? Playful inhabitant of the nightly skies, showing thy face, yet sometimes hiding neath the shadows of blue.
Were you nibbled away, a white cookie silhouetting the trees of my woods, the darkness hungry to consume you?
The crescent of your smile foretells yet a future celestial game of hide and seek. Shall it be you or Mr. Sun who initiates the next round of syzygy, whilst I watch from this cerulean orb?
It’s gone 1am here, and the eclipse is intermittently visible through the clouds. Don’t know why, but we appear to have TWO moons - maybe it’s the quantity of beer consumed.
It was awful cold outside, down by the lake, so we retreated just at totality. It didn’t seem as red or dim as the eclipse in May. At least that one was warmer.
Hey, Steve & Chris – you warming up at the fireplace?
Our kid seemed very impressed… she’s a bit silly though. We wrapped her up in a blanket and took her outside (She’s only 2 1/2) now she keeps asking me to swaddle her so she can go see the stars.