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Who knew all this would happen afterwards! Flat Creek in November, 2024. Much changed by the force of the hurricane floods in Sept. 2024. The deck of the bridge is now under that pile of debris.

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

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.




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  1. eileeninmdMay 17, 2022 at 5:16 AM

    Beautiful photos of the moon! We missed the Lunar Eclipse, it was too cloudy here. Take care, have a great day!

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    1. Barbara RogersMay 17, 2022 at 10:57 AM

      I was as surprised as anyone that the clouds parted to let me see most of the eclipse. I was bummed by the camera not working, so I just quit before totallity.

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  2. AnvilcloudMay 17, 2022 at 8:01 AM

    I have taken one eclipse and wasn’t moved to try another, especially with overcast skies and possible rain when I would have had to find a spot away from home somewhere.

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    1. Barbara RogersMay 17, 2022 at 10:58 AM

      Good decision. I remember the first eclipse of a full moon which I enjoyed with friends at a party...quite a few years ago. There are many that I've missed due to clouds.

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    2. Barbara RogersMay 17, 2022 at 10:58 AM

      And I really wish I'd brought out the real camera and tripod!

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  3. TomMay 17, 2022 at 9:09 AM

    ...another one that I slept through!

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  4. NewRobin13May 17, 2022 at 10:01 AM

    We didn't get to see it at all. Way too foggy and cloudy here. It's wonderful that you got to see it.

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  5. Jenn JilksMay 17, 2022 at 4:16 PM

    Really well done! I thought about it, but, like you, bedtime is around 9 these days. I have to wind down with a book. (ツ) from <A HREF="https://mymuskoka.blogspot.com/2022/05/flora-and-fauna-tails.html> Cottage Country Ontario </A>, ON, Canada!

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    1. Barbara RogersMay 17, 2022 at 5:13 PM

      Thanks Jenn...glad you enjoyed what's been accumulated by me...thanks to the internet!

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  6. jennyfrecklesMay 17, 2022 at 5:08 PM

    I would have stayed up to watch it too. Here it was visible in the early morning just before dawn except that it wasn't visible due to cloud!

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    1. Barbara RogersMay 17, 2022 at 5:13 PM

      That's right, you are 5 hours ahead of me at all times. Sorry about the clouds! Maybe next time!

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  7. LindaMay 17, 2022 at 10:56 PM

    Great shots! I didn’t even try. So many people do it better than I can.

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  8. Vicki LaneMay 18, 2022 at 8:25 AM

    Good on you for trying! It seemed so cloudy heat that I just went to sleep.

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  9. William KendallMay 20, 2022 at 5:38 PM

    I missed it. It was raining that evening. Though the next day a colleague said it cleared up enough to see it later.

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