Besides the much anticipated total eclipse of the moon tonight is what's called a satellite flare, occurring at 08:26:14 in Louisville. It will only last a couple of seconds at the most and will resemble a shooting star in slow motion. But cloud cover looks to obscure my view here at the house. Nevertheless, look to the north at a 45 degrees above the horizon.
It is 8:37 and cloud cover is causing a fuzzy outline of the moon at my house. Technically, the eclipse is underway in the US just not at my house, but looking at my Distant Suns app, the moon still looks full anyway.
At 9:30-9:40, a nice clear shot of the moon, took a couple of pictures, hoping to upload it by tomorrow. By the way my app still shows moon full despite nearly half of the moon now shaded. I didn't think it would do that. Solar eclipse shows sun being blocked by the moon, thought it would work for lunar eclipse. Oops.
The moon began to emerge from the earth's shadow a few minutes ago. The skies cleared enough for additional camera shots, including one where the outer edge of the moon began to illuminate. Cool. Signing off at 11:30.
Hopefully, I can get these uploaded by tomorrow...
Good night.
MS
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