Having missed seeing Mars the closest it will ever be in our lifetime, E and I watched the lunar eclipse this morning first from the lanai and then the front yard until we could see the moon no longer.
The pictures are not the best but I did get a good sequence of the first part of the eclipse. The moon has gone below the horizon here so we'll have to watch the second half of this on tv.
When I was younger, I remember wanting to be an astronomer. The mystery of the sky, the stars, the moon...lured me! My grandmother bought me a star gazer. It was two paper discs secured by a grommet in the middle. I would align the two with the night sky and could locate constellations. I even saw my first satellite standing on the blvd. in front of my grandmother's house the first summer the Russians put it in orbit. I bought another one a couple of years back at Barnes and Noble but have no idea what happened to it. Lost in the move, perhaps.
E shares my love of the night sky and we've been known to jump in the car very early in the morning to drive away from city lights, park and watch a meteor shower. It was easier to do in Ft. Myers than St. Louis as we could roam down to the dock, coffee mug in hand and star gaze.
7 comments:
What great pictures Jules. :-)
SO cool! My pix are pale in comparison but show the red much much more... just not as close up as yours. I'll have to tinker with them when I get them off the camera and see what I end up with.
Thanks so much for sharing, it was an awesome sight!
Darla
Thanks for sharing the pics. It was tooo cloudy here!
:Jayne
Nice! It's hard to get pics of something like that. I always enjoy star-gazing as well but I tend to forget most of the constellations. I sometimes stayed up late as a kid to see the meteor showers and never did see much of anything. Too much ight where I lived I think (Montreal).
Pam
You need to be here for the eclipses, etc. I live in the country and not to many lights . or we could go to DH's home place, it is really out in the country.
You really do need to make a trip this way, Feb. is much to far away. We will have to try to work something out before then.
Just me :]
Jules, fantastic pics!!!!!
Great pictures Jules.
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