This night’s lunar eclipse was seen all throughout North America, and it was spectacular! I hope you had been in a position to see it, however in the event you did not, right here is a few sense of what it was like.
Out right here in California the eclipse was already underway at sundown, and many of the Moon was already within the Earth’s shadow. It was sort of unusual to see a “crescent” Moon rising within the east because the solar set within the west.
The sliver of the sunlit lunar floor grew smaller and smaller, and the Moon appeared to vanish within the deepening nightfall. The darkened face of the Moon was truly glowing with pink gentle refracted by the Earth’s environment, however it took a couple of moments for the sky to develop darkish sufficient to see it.
The pink of the Blood Moon turned seen, after which I had a little bit of a shock. It’s onerous to see stars within the fast neighborhood of the total moon as a result of it’s so vivid. However in the event you look within the image under, take a look at the ten:30 place of the disk, and there’s a star rising from behind the Moon! I’ve by no means seen this occur earlier than.
Just a few moments extra, and the moon had moved away from the star, and a number of other others had been seen as welll.
It wasn’t straightforward holding the digital camera nonetheless sufficient to catch the celebrities as nicely. I suppose I ought to simply use a tripod, however what’s life with out challenges? I solely deleted 30 or 40 shaky photographs…
This was an unusually lengthy interval of totality for a lunar eclipse. After round an hour, the underside fringe of the Moon started to glow brighter because the orb moved nearer to the sting of the Earth’s shadow.
After which identical to that the Solar started to shine on the lunar floor once more.
The pink disk disappeared and the celebrities dimmed and disappeared as soon as once more.
After which it was over, and our vivid full Moon had returned. And that’s the way it was! Due to our buddies Jeanne and Barry for a pleasant night with a porch overlooking the Tuolumne River and an ideal moonrise!
