So who else poked their head outside tonight to check out the lunar eclipse?

It wasn't as 'orangey' as I was expecting it to be but it was still pretty cool to see in person. Where the wife & I live now we are a bit out in cow country so the skies are clearer compared to the town I grew up in; seeing stuff like the eclipse now with clear skies is much different from trying to view it at a place where the town lights interfere.

Unfortunately my P&S camera isn't quite up to the task of taking decent night shots so hopefully Robbie or somebody else will come across a few shots from tonight.

The next one is to take place in 2010. ... Ya' know, every time I write that year out, in my head I follow it up with "2010: Odyssey Two" and then "Holy... it's going to be 2010 soon! :eek:"

It has been really foggy here the last few days and last night the sky, well it wasn't visible. I did consider trying to capture the moon, but it wasn't possible due to the weather in the end. So I got some extra sleep instead!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0802/tle_lodriguss070_c800.jpg (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0802/tle_lodriguss070.jpg)


Eclipsed Moonlight
Credit & Copyright (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply): Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light (http://www.astropix.com/INDEX.HTM))

Explanation: Moon watchers blessed with clear skies over the Americas, Europe, Africa and western Asia enjoyed (http://www.spaceweather.com/eclipses/ gallery_20feb08.htm) a total lunar eclipse (http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/ eclipse.html) this week. Catching eclipsed moonlight, astroimager Jerry Lodriguss offers this view (http://www.astropix.com/HTML/SHOW_DIG/070.HTM) of the inspiring celestial event with the shadowed Moon (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060909.html) accompanied by wandering (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070407.html) planet Saturn at the left, and bright Regulus, alpha star of the constellation Leo, above (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_(constellation)). The engaging composite picture was made by combining a filtered, telephoto image of the Moon and surrounding starfield with a telescopic exposure. The combination dramatizes the reddened moonlight (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031121.html) while clearly showing the variation of brightness and color in Earth's not-so-dark shadow across the lunar surface (http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/ 04nov_lunareclipse2105.htm).




(Via NASA (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080222.html))

Eclipsed Moonlight
Credit & Copyright (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply): Jerry Lodriguss (Catching the Light (http://www.astropix.com/INDEX.HTM)) Very nice! :cool: