I’ve seen a couple of solar eclipses. My first was when I was pretty darned young. Until tonight, though, I’d not seen a lunar eclipse. Thanks to Mari and Doug (and especially Doug’s nifty homemade telescope) that’s been remedied.
I don’t know about “blood red moons,” but there is a definite reddish tinge to an eclipsed full moon. The really notable part isn’t the color, though. It’s the strange darkness of what is normally a bright white circle in the sky. You get used to full moons looking a certain way, and it’s rather sinister to see it so dim and rusty-red.
It was a nifty experience, indeed. So… I wonder when Mari will get around to posting those pictures she took? (I didn’t bother trying with my camera. My first attempt to snap a picture of a full moon back when I first got the thing resulted in a high resolution picture of almost nothing, punctuated by a little white dot. Bleh.)
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2 responses to “A first, tonight, in skygazing.”
You left a comment on my blog about your nickname, and your explanation led me to believe that you were a senior citizen originally from the Midwest.
I see now I that I pretty much couldn’t have been farther off track.
That eclipse was cool, wasn’t it? Kinda eerie.
exuse me, you have to seen a lunar eclipse. Your swiss cheese memory seems to have forgotton the time we took our kids to your old place of business and sat and watched their first lunar eclipse sitting on my old mazda. *tsk tsk* They were about four and five I think at the time, it’s one of my favorite family memories of when we actually did something as a family.