GaryM posted a nice picture in the other eclipse thread. I’m home now, but the moon’s disappeared behind the tall trees and Mill Hill. I shall be peeking occasionally, looking for its ruddy reappearance.
It finally cleared up here, and Mr. Neville and I got to look at the eclipsed moon through our kitchen skylights.
Weatherman blow! It was crystal clear all night! I walked outside my front door, looked up and there she was. No obstructions at all! Sweet!!! 
Very attractive. A little too moist to see Saturn, though.
I hate you all.
It was cloudy – like 100% blanket cloud cover over here. I even woke up at 4 frigging am to have a look. Anyone got pics?
I feel like I’ve failed the geeky astronomer test or something
We had a clear view which is something that almost never happens when I want to see something like this. All the snow has made it bright as day for a long time, so the change to dark was dramatic.
Well we actually saw Saturn through my cheapie telescope. It was cool to see the rings in real life. It was all white, but we could easily make out the rings which was a thrilll.
The actual eclipse wasn’t too amazing though it was fairly cool.
Lovely view of it here in the Boston area. But boy, the astronomical ignorance on display among my fellow watchers (and not excluding myself)! Even to reasonably well educated people, astronomy is a total black hole, knowledge-wise. I think the low point was when the astral body I had confidently identified as Venus turned out to be an airplane.
Clouds were threatening by me; in fact the contact with the penumbra was hidden by a veil of clouds; but the winds kicked up and cleared the sky and it was simply gorgeous from then on. Made a point of dragging the Mrs. and my 7 year old out in the cold to see it (from the porch).
:dubious:
Shadow?!
Cite, please.
(Watch this space for new nic.)
If you can see Venus anywhere in the vicinity of a full moon, eclipsed or not… we’re in very serious trouble. The “all life on earth is about to be wiped out” sort of trouble.
Venus is between us and the sun. That means there’s a maximum distance that it can appear away from the sun in the sky. It’s around 45 degrees. A full moon, on the other hand, is opposite the sun in the sky, which you will recall from high school geometry is 180 degrees. You can only see Venus near a crescent moon, since the moon is a waxing or waning crescent when it is within 45 degrees of the sun.
If you did see Venus near a full moon, it would mean that Venus is no longer between us and the sun. That means that something with the ability to move planets out of their orbits is around in the solar system. That could make the earth crash into the sun, fling the earth off to freeze in interstellar space, crash a planet into the earth, or just change our orbit a bit, with the resultant climate change possibly making global warming and the ice ages look like minor hiccups. Not at all likely to be a good thing.