Saturday night's entertainment...

[IrishGolfer]

Sat up with my 2 boys to watch this. The climax was about 11.15pm, 7 year old just about lasted but the 4 year old flaked a lot earlier. The excitement went after about 10 minutes for him, but the older dude was fascinated. Try explaining a lunar eclipse to a 7 year old.

Absolutely crystal clear sky and the climax was fairly stunning. Cool!

Had a funny thought, those coming back from the Pub on Saturday night not knowing about this were in for a surreal surprise.

"Hey, see 'at moon, wha' the fuxk going on sere zen? Hic, (giggle)!"

[warbirdlover]

Watched one like that last summer (or summer before?). Imagine what they thought of that in the ancient times....

[Bravo]

Awesome photos...what exactly caused the reddish color??

[IrishGolfer]

Originally Posted by Bravo

Awesome photos...what exactly caused the reddish color??

Check Lunar eclipse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

or c&p...

The red colouring arises because of the scattering of sunlight in the Earth's atmosphere. Sunlight reaching the Moon must pass through a long and dense layer of the Earth's atmosphere, where it is scattered by dust particles. Shorter wavelengths are more likely to be scattered by the small particles, and so by the time the light has passed through the atmosphere, the longer wavelengths dominate. This resulting light we perceive as red. This is the same effect that causes sunsets and sunrises to turn the sky a reddish color; an alternative way of considering the problem is to realise that, as viewed from the Moon, the Sun would appear to be setting (or rising) behind the Earth.