Bobby Williams caught some of the lunar eclipse late last night/early this morning from his East Village perch.
The first two photos are from 1:30 a.m. …
… and the last shot was at 2:30 a.m.
As we cut-n-paste from CNN:
In a total lunar eclipse, the full moon turns a coppery red as it passes into Earth's shadow. During the process, the moon's bright glow dims, taking on a red hue because of shimmers of sunlight and sunsets seeping through the Earth's atmosphere.
Apparently clouds obscured the blood moon part of it on the East Coast … otherwise, this would have been the projection…
[Desiree Martin/AFP/Getty Images]
You know, superstitious people have all sorts of silly ideas about why the moon turned red, but if you ask me, there was definitely some malevolent force behind the clouds covering the moon just as it was about to turn red! Or maybe we were protected from its evil affects? That's the problem with deities, you never really know which side they're on.
ReplyDeleteWhy the fuck couldn't they have scheduled the eclipse for better weather? They had lots of lead time on this. Seems like they just don't care.
ReplyDeleteThe Lunar Eclipses were better 20 years ago!
ReplyDeleteWell - here in LA LA LAnd the eclipse was pretty trippy to look at - sorry you guys got clouded out. But not to worry - this was the first of 4 of these eclipses in the next year and a half. They will be every 6 months - the next is in Sept. This series of eclipses is known as a "tetrad" and happens quite infreqently as you might imagine. I don't know if all of them happen on a full moon like last night but we'll see... I could only imagine what traditional/indigenous people thought of all this before the "scientific" explanations we have for this. Even with the explanation - this was still VERY cool to see
ReplyDeleteYep, all of these new people moved in and brought the clouds/rain/snow with them, thus making a live view of the lunar eclipse impossible...
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