A couple days ago my eldest asked if she could stay up to watch the lunar eclipse on Sunday. Um, yes! I found out later that she also gets extra credit points in Science class for taking a picture or bringing a parent note that she went out and looked at the eclipse. We found out that the next lunar eclipse doesn’t occur until 2022! So I pulled out my good camera, the tripod, and coats, and starting at about 10pm, we started going out and taking pictures every 10 minutes or so.

This was particularly exciting, because before our move our luck seeing stellar events was not stellar. The haze, humidity, clouds, and light pollution meant that we hardly ever were able to actually observe much in the sky at night.

Now we are more country, there is far less light pollution, and we actually had a fairly clear sky! Happy dance! And as the lunar eclipse progressed, we could see more and more stars. We were able to identify Orion (which was the only constellation we could see at our old house regularly), Cassiopeia, the Pleiades, and the Big Dipper. (Now that we can see so many more stars, I think it is time to get out the charts again and learn our constellations!!)

This morning I opened up Adobe Photoshop and did a collage of the best of the images (there were many very blurry pictures, hmm, need to work on my moon pictures too apparently). Enjoy!