Just got back in from watching the total eclipse of the moon, from a beautiful vantage point just a hundred feet or so from my front door. The moon slipped into totality just as the sky started to significantly lighten from the dawn. The top part of the moon's disk was into the umbra, and was a nice reddish-orange. The bottom part was still in the penumbra, and was grayer than the top. The only eclipse viewing I've ever had that was better than this was decades ago, in the 1970s, when I watched one from the Indian Ocean in the dead of night...
It will be a while before I can watch one of these again...
