Nothing I can do, Total Eclipse of the Moon

I hope you weren't counting on me to remind you to watch the eclipse last night.

For the record, there was an eclipse last night.

I hope you didn't read "Feb 21" somewhere not not realize that meant universal time, and thus subtract your time zone and realize it was LAST night, and not today. Stupid Universal Time.

Fortunately, I personally had about 64 reminders. 53 of them were from my children.

I really should've looked up *how* to photograph the moon and an eclipse *before* the actual eclipse. But I was able to get a few decent pix by fiddling.

Turns out that a tripod that only locks at 0, 45, and 90 for the angle isn't all that helpful when the moon is somewhere between 45 and 90. And tripods aren't really all that steady when plunked in the snow. But, nonetheless, it was a good learning experience for me. It was unusually clear for a Michigan Night Sky Event. And like I said, I did get a couple decent pix. I'll quit rambling and show you.

Going under:

Eclipsed:

Coming Out:

Coming Out:

The two littlest boys were long in bed. The two middle kids did not want to brave the bitter cold, and peeked now and then front window. The two eldest would've stayed up all night if I had let them, but when we realized it would be fully eclipsed for ~50 minutes and that they had already seen it at full, we sent them packing off to bed, after hot chocolate for them and decaf coffee for me. I'm really not a cocoa gal. My poor fingers were frozen from dinking around with the camera settings, and glad to sit in front of a roaring fire while the pictures downloaded from the camera.