Lunar Eclipse

On Saturday night there was a total lunar eclipse, where the moon moved into the shadow of the earth for a coupla hours. Europe and Africa had the best view of it, and surprisingly enough it was a lovely cloudless night over our little village.

So armed with the camera and tripod, I wandered outside a few minutes before it was due to begin and waited for stuff to happen. Well - this is the first lunar eclipse I've seen, and it's, er, slow. So instead of sitting outside in the cold like an idiot for an hour and a half I returned to the warm lounge room and instead wandered out every five minutes or so to admire the view, and take a photo.

It was pretty spectacular!












Once the moon was completely in the Earth's shadow, the only light from the sun that was reaching it was the little that was refracted onto it by the Earth's atmosphere. This bathes the moon in a beautiful faintish deep red light. As there is next to no light pollution out here in the countryside, it was very visible indeed.





Lovely.