Another celestial disappointment.....

[rwsmith]

I did astronomy for about 25 years and logged a long list of spectacular sights. 7 planets, several unbelievable meteor showers, several comets, all kinds of object, star clusters, nebula, etc. I've seen binary stars and even binary binary stars.

Then the skies quit cooperating. Misty, cloudy or just murky all the time. My eyes eyes and health went and I haven't done anything serious in over 20 years. I know that I haven't put the effort into it that I used to but everything was just a bust due to conditions.

SUPER RED BLOOD ON THE MOON ECLIPSE:

Time was great, skies were clear. (A miracle occured)

Watched the shadow take a big bite out of the moon. Later it was almost gone with a little bit of deep red. Then it was gone completely. DARK. Then another bite appeared and it grew from there.

Over the years I've seen total lunar eclipses that looked like new copper pennies without even trying.

Another big galactic bust.

PS: If I were to somehow start again I'd track a few asteroids. I never got into that.

 

[forindooruseonly]

That was my experience too. Just dark, no color. The last one I saw a couple of years ago was brilliant, but this was underwhelming. Such is life, I suppose if they were all awesome then I wouldn't care so much about seeing them.

 

[sigp220.45]

It was pretty fantastic here - big moon, dark red.

 

[bdGreen]

No Disappointments Here

January's Super Blood Moon eclipse

North Texas

01.20.2019

8:00 P.M.

11:25 P.M.

01.21.2019

12:15 A.M.

Enjoy,
bdGreen

 

[Onomea]

Thanks, BD. Those are great!

 

[histreenut]

In NC, we were able to see it pretty well. My phone does not take the best pictures but the moon was very red around midnight.
In the second photo, you will have to expand it to see the red moon.

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[Bib]

It was entirely too cold to go out and look at the Blood Moon last night...so I just stuck a slice of bologna on the window and called it good

 

[brucev]

It was cool. Changed a bit at the time. Ended up a very dark pink. Showed up best between 12:10 - 12:20 AM. Moisture in the air made it feel very cold. Took some pictures w/ my phone camera. At 6X the image was fairly large. Handheld ... hard to keep things still. Probably should have had more than a bathrobe and boots on. Oh well, guess I guess the pictures would not have been any better if I'd been wearing socks. Sincerely. bruce.

 

[daglockman]

Nice, bright, and red here in Colorado.

 

[twodog max]

Looked red to me here in the Arkansas Ozarks. It must have been really red as I am partially color blind and reds are one I do not see well.

 

[Faulkner]

Was clear skies in Arkansas

 

[BC38]

Too cloudy to see it here last night.

 

[DWalt]

From here, I'd say it was anout 2/3ds coppery at totality.

 

[rwsmith]

I guess you saw it....

It was pretty fantastic here - big moon, dark red.

I guess you saw it a couple of hours after we did. Ours went from 9:30 to 3:00 or so EST with the peak around midnight to 12:30 if I remember right. How did that compare to when you saw it.

Anyway, this has been my experience for a long time. Big anticipation, big bust.

I had my special glass for the eclipse and the weather was awful. It did get dark as pitch though. The one back in '72 it was overcast some, but you could still see it well.

 

[rwsmith]

The sky was clear here, too...

Was clear skies in Arkansas

...but the moon just got dark with a little spot of red, went black then came back. If I were a native I would have gone in the house and grabbed pots and pans to beat to chase away the dragon that ate the moon but being 'civilized' I was just disappointed.

 

[ExcitableBoy]

Although I am an inveterate skywatcher/stargazer, at 13 below zero, it was just too bleeping cold outside for mooning of any kind here in Frozen Tundra country.

I couldn't get an angle through any of the windows, but it did get pitch dark for a while. If only I had a moon roof on the house...

 

[Old 44 Guy]

We wanted to see it but Mother Nature had other plans. WE had over 2 inches rain & very strong gusts of wind last night here in the foothills Sierra Nevada Mts.

 

[soFlaNative]

While not near as good as bib's what I saw was a bit redder than bdgreen's.
I just never have expected the spectacular from the Heaven's, I might be disappointed at the Second Coming. I know meteor showers will not be firework displays and comets won't be streaking through the skies.
Unless I travel the solar eclipse will only be crescent shadows through the trees.
The closest to disappointment was the spring of '86 when I took my pregnant wife to the southernmost point on the Fla. peninsula to see Halley's Comet. It was a close approach but the tail had somewhat separated a week or so earlier so all we saw was a bright, fuzzy football close to the southern horizon.
Still very worthwhile the view of the Southern Cross and my wife strolling Fla. Bay at dawn was beautiful.

 

[memtb]

Nice and red here....I could see the red, and I’m color blind! memtb

 

[blues7]

I'm an old amateur astronomer myself, RW. Even took courses at the Hayden Planetarium in NYC as a kid.

I don't drag my old 8" Dobsonian reflector out as much I once did, but I have a nice list of celestial objects I've observed over the years as well.

Good stuff.

 

[Targets Guy]

I saw this one on line yesterday. Totally amazing from many aspects.

 

[rwsmith]

'Awesome' is an overused word.....

I saw this one on line yesterday. Totally amazing from many aspects.

...but that's AWESOME!