Text Box: Home Total Lunar Eclipse Text Box: Last night was the lunar eclipse. It is the last one for almost 3 yrs so we had to watch it. Of course, my children watched it from the warmth of the bedroom with glances outside between singers on American Idol. I with my ‘new love’ (my Nikon D40X) was outside for almost two hours...at 26 degrees. Can you say obsessed? Text Box: I have worked really hard to edit these 131 photos down into the best of the eclipse. Above, you see the beginning of it, and if you look closely you can see a little turquoise glow from the opposite side of the moon. I am guessing that is ghosting, but the effect is cool. You will see more of these “ghosts” and the cool effects it created below. Text Box: Did you know that the earth’s shadow is orange? Not like our black/grey shadows here on Earth. When the earth casts a shadow it is orange, which is why the moon had this type of glow last night.

Ghosting
Text Box: I might not know where Elvis is, but doesn’t that look like John Lennon in the shadow of the moon? I mean, you can see his little round glasses, nose and beard. Come on, you know you see it too! This ghost was too cool to erase, it looks like another planet...so I could not take it out. Not to mention you can see stars in this shot too. You can also see the progression of the eclipse really well here. Text Box: Clearly, the camera got bumped, but I just love the bouncing effect of the moon in this photo, so I had to include it! The ironic part is, the more the moon goes into shadow, the brighter my camera seemed to take the photo. I guess since there was not a lot of contrast, it made it all equally bright. You can still see the orange glow though.

You know you see him here...
Text Box: After two hours at 26 degrees, I could not stand it any more. I was frozen. Solid. So, I could not make it to see it come around the other side. What we did notice was interesting (from in the house) was how the moon lit from the bottom over to the left. On this graphic you can see why that is. Eclipse in motion NASA’s website on the eclipse