Aug
28
2007

Luna Eclipse

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This morning Katie heard on the radio that tonight was going to be a luna eclipse. I've been waiting in anticipation all day. Well okay, I actually didn't give it another thought until the walk home, being greeted with a huge full moon, which in itself was photo worthy.

As fate would have it, by the time we got home, or at least by the time I went andn grabbed my camera, the moon was completely covered by clouds. Which was rather unbelievable, because of how large and bright it was.

That has hardly stopped me though, and waiting out here for the cloud to move on hasn't been totally unproductive. There was a little break in the clouds while we ate out here (second night in a row), enough to witness the darkening of the moon. Before the clouds came back through, right before show time. As the moon became mostly covered, the clouds really set it, making totally obscuring it. Of course, I was expxecting a 2 minute event, and thought the whole thing was happening behind the clouds. At around 7:55 the clouds diserpated partially, as I snapped away, still thinking that time was limited. A couple of minutes later however I noticed some red forming around the edges in the photos I was taking, and then was able to see it with the naked eye. So thankfully I hadn't missed the main event like I thought I had.

However, from there it's got nothing from better, the clouds progressively clearing up, revealing the significantly red sun. Having decided earlier, when things weren't looking to good, that I was going to stay out here for the duration, in an effect to get something, I grabbed my laptop. Which in itself has been awesome - sitting out here, beautiful night, blogging. This is the shit!

Around 8 the clouds began to clear up, and after a few shots I started to notice a red tinge, and by 8:23, the clouds had really cleared up, making for some really good shots of the moon, completely red. Definately an errie sight to witness. Around 9, the a bright reflection started to form on the right bottom of the moon, give it an unreal sphere look, like a strange orange sphere suspended in the black sky. As time passed this took over more of the moon, getting brighter and brighter, again a really errie and fantastic site to witness. Aside from the obvious excitment in terms of photography, the site was just really great to witness.

The entire show started to wind down at around 9:50pm, with the light starting to encompass the entire moon, just as the clouds from the west started to roll over. Despite the annoyance earlier tonight, I'm definitely glad that the clouds held off for the main event.
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