I watched the lunar eclipse last month with my son and my dog. It was an awesome sight! My son and I enjoyed the view, but my dog, Mocha, didn't think it was anything extraordinary. The next lunar eclipse won't happen again until 2010.
My first choice for witnessing this event would've been at the Mauna Kea Observatories located on the Big Island of Hawaii. You can check them out at http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/mko. Not that it was necessary to use such powerful telescopes to view the lunar eclipse, but I just like vacationing in Hawaii and this would've been one excuse to do so.
Here are a couple photos that I took that night. The first photo is a close up of the moon. I haven't seen it look quite this color in recent memory. The second photo shows the moon to the right. To the lower left, there is a white spot. That is Saturn.
Someday, I'll have to get myself a telescope to see what else is up there.
2 comments:
Nice shot! I've always thought it would be cool to use a photo like this as a background for a senior portrait, haven't tried it yet.
Thanks. Yes, that would be fun to do. Maybe I'll have to play around with it and see what I come up with.
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