Dang! I missed it!
In fact, I didn’t even know it was happening until this morning when I opened an email from “S” (aka Pipocas, popcorn mule and international woman of mystery). She’d sent it at 3.56am, saying that if I was awake I should get out on my balcony now.
Of all the nights not to suffer from insomnia . . . 😦
Anybody else see it?
casa azahar 
No! and what a beautiful photo!
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I was raining here in San Francisco, so I missed it, dammit. The next full lunar eclipse for the northern hemisphere is 2 years away.
I love watching the moon turn red.
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Nope.
My furclad wake-up-it’s-time-to-cuddle-service was late today, 5.22 so I missed it. The usual time for that service is around 4.30 which would have given me oppurtunity to see it.
As said, there’s another one in two years.
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The only time I’ve woken up for a lunar eclipse, it was cloudy – and the forecast here was for cloud overnight (certainly true for this morning) so didn’t bother.
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I’ve only ever seen one as far as I can remember. Got to sleep just in time to miss this one. Pretty picture, though.
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If I’d known about it beforehand I would have set my alarm just to see it.
Are you sure the next one is only two years away, toby? I read NINE years … sheeit.
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If you sleep through a lunar eclipse, don’t worry, they’re not as rare as a solar one and certainly not as spectacular. I was in the feathers at that time, but saw it on TV later!
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Depends where you are of course, whether (and how much of) the eclipse is visible to you.
http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/LEprimer.html
Contains a timetable – next total is in 2010, then a couple in 2011.
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Well, you will remind me, won’t you Johnny?
I’m so seriously crap at remembering anything.
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Yes, we saw it. A friend arrived from out of town and he was interested in checking it out; coincidentally he arrived 15 minutes before it began, and I got home from work @ 5:30 — it began shortly before 6 pm for us.
We drove down to the boat ramp on the south shore of Alameda here in CA, so we could have a clear view all around us for miles. It’s been rainy for us, and at first it was cloudy along the horizon, but some clear sky above. So we just walked the dogs in the gathering dusk, but then I looked back over my shoulder and there it was, big and orange as life, the moon with a large bite taken out of it’s lower left corner.
At first we wondered if it was just clouds obscuring that corner, but that bite was too dark and we realized it had to be the eclipse. Very cool. We went out to dinner and when we finished it was still in progress, only now the upper right corner was eclipsed.
We’re taking it as superstitiously as possible, that the gods are displeased with our president and his policies, and redoubling our efforts to make amends.
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You are indeed wise to do this, OmBudsBen.
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It was really neat – sort of made me feel like I was in a cartoon or something. It started here at about 6:45 ish and went on until around 8:30. Really pretty. Beautiful color!
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Ours was best viewed at 11:50 PM. Of course, it was about 20 degrees at that time. I ran out and looked for a couple of minutes. It was pretty cool.
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Really neat, Jenny? You must be Canadian, eh? 😉
I’m very envious that both you and Ben got to see it.
Uncle Keith, these are for you … 😛
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hey wait, az – uncle keith is doing orange this week. not red! 🙂
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Yeah, you’re right daisy, the red does clash a bit. Maybe these would go better with the orange theme.
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Really neat- could be Kiwi as well – at least from my generation.
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I once had an English boyfriend who always teasing me about saying ‘really neat’ – until then I’d thought that everyone said it.
Many years before that another English boyfriend cured me of saying ‘eh’ all the time, for which I remain very grateful. But I still say ‘really neat’ – just don’t hear it, or see it written, very often.
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I don’t tend to say it – really neat that is – just hearing it, or seeing it written takes me back to “way back when”.
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No way, eh? I like that Canadian ‘eh’, eh.
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I saw it. My seven year old daughter and I laid on her bedroom floor and watched it through her window. It was a perfectly clear night and started around 9 pm or so. We could even see Saturn shining brilliantly right next to the moon. We talked about how neat it would’ve been to have had a telescope at that moment so that we could see the rings. My daughter and I, we just love that kind of shit. 😉
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That sounds like it was a lovely experience, CJ (ha! and you said ‘neat’ too!). 🙂
Thing about when I used to say ‘eh’ all the time, Dan, was that I didn’t even realise I was saying it. Then J started saying it every time I did and I was amazed at how stupid it sounded. So I stopped. Well, mostly…
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