Full moon eclipse May 15, 2022

  A full lunar eclipse, at a time I could manage to be awake! Yay. I talked with one of my family members for about an hour while waiting...knowing I could stay awake if there was something interesting to do. My bedtime is usually in the hour before double digits hit the digital clock. (Fun statement about digits on a digital timepiece.)

And here's the best photo I took, before the eclipse even started!

It was great the clouds blew away, but a phone camera can't do justice to a moon even almost all occluded by shadow...it somehow still lets it look like a big round white ball. I gave up after 30 minutes of this. 

Though this wasn't what I was seeing with my naked eyes (through my glasses lenses)...this is a 3 second exposure which shows some of the orange, and there was only about a sliver of white that I saw, but it bloomed over the whole moon for the camera. Hello to the new little blue fairy that also showed up!

Here are better photos (a way I can save them is by posting them here!)

By Jim Polling, Black Mountain NC

By Bob Crowe in St. Louis MO

By Hensler Villela in California

A last minute addition...

By Sergio Garcia Rill a nice composite.

And another later addition...

By Isabel Diaz Sanchez

From space by Craig Nickols

I love that this face of the moon, thousands of miles from earth, looks so much the same from photographers thousands of miles apart!

Today's quote:

Diane Ackerman wrote, "It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.