Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Lunar eclipse

As I left work tonight, I had a great view of the lunar eclipse -- and I had my camera with me. I don't have a tripod, so my closeup pic is a little blurry, but it's better than nothing.

Here's the moon over Doernbecher Children's Hospital. If you look closely, you can see the eclipse in progress.
Lunar eclipse over Doernbecher

And here's the closeup:
Closeup of lunar eclipse

Both of these were taken at about 6:45 PM.

Usually we miss astronomical displays like this, because it's usually cloudy. Tonight, though, it's perfectly clear, and the view is amazing.

1 comment:

Gexy said...

Janet, I felt so lucky (here in the Northwest) to actually get to see the eclipse! It seems like it is always raining when stuff like that happens.

BTW, I tagged you with a Meme (my first). You can check it out at my blog http://gexie.blogspot.com/