We got a crystal clear view of the eclipse.
Last night we were able to see the eclipse as Earth's shadow began its creep across the face of the moon. There had been clouds before sunset but then the sky grew completely clear. Darkness first edged onto the lower left corner of the moon, slowly swallowing its entirety.
Maybe it's just me, but the partial phases of the eclipse, when the moon is still half bright, make me want to reach my arms out and cast my own personal shadow onto the still lit part of the moon. As if I could. I have had the urge to do this since I was little and saw my first lunar eclipse. Imagine a tiny shadow puppet of a bunny cast upon the glowing portion of the moon.
For the few minutes leading up to totality, a crowd gathered outside where I was staying. They gazed out and enjoyed the beautiful orangish moon with a slight white gleam holding onto the top right corner until that, too, disappeared. When the moon was full it was too bright to see most of the nearby stars, but during totality Saturn and Regulus made nice companions to the moon.
Now it's a two-year wait before our next chance to see a total lunar eclipse.
