Red Moon Eclipse Photos

[spiralingmoon]

Our great spiraling moon was dark red, big and full last night during her spectacular eclipse by the earth's shadow. I went to watch the event down by the Embarcadero near the foot of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Somehow I missed the early moments of the moon rising because it was already in its totality while on the rise and hard to spot.

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Thank you!

[psychethesane]

It was too cloudy here to see the moon. :(
At least now I can say I "saw" the eclipse, if slightly later than the rest of the planet.

Beautiful photos, btw. Makes me want to take the time to learn how to play with my Kodak digital cam's exposure settings - night shots are the only thing it seems to struggle with on automatic.

Thanks again for sharing such beauty.
~Sara

Re: Thank you!

[spiralingmoon]

Thanks for your comment.

San Francisco was extremely lucky with a clear sky last night. Yes, that's right, the only way to get decent night shots is by manually setting your camera's exposure. Good luck.

[spiralingmoon]

You're very welcome. Sorry for your overcast weather at such a critical time. I'm extremely thankful it was at all possible to see. Usually SF is cloudy too starting around this time of year.

[fairy]

These are gorgeous! It's interesting to see how different it looked over by you. Over here (in Georgia) it looked like the moon disappeared from the bottom - up.

Stunning photos~

[spiralingmoon]

Really, that's cool.

I just felt an earthquake jolt. Funny, they usually happen during eclipses. My heart skipped a beat. It was about 2 minutes ago. I'm going to check the magnitude now on the quake site.

[crimsongoddess]

The different colors that the shadow of the earth takes on the moon relate to how bad the air is in your neck of the woods. The moon disappeared in shadow for me as well since I live in Las Vegas where the air quality is horrid. Frisco must have better air quality for it to look the way it did.

[fanciulla]

i kicked myself for forgetting to go out and see it. i saw it when it was almost gone (at 9:50something). the bridge photos look GORGEOUS! how awesome is it that the moon looks so big and close and round and just wow. from L.A. i could see it but it was small and up high (in your bridge pics it seems like it was on the horizon or it was a little above eye lever. but then again, you saw it during the eclipe, i went out there late). i took pics too but i doubt they'll come out nice. *kicks self again* next time.

[fanciulla]

err, excuse me and my typos. but it's obvious what i wanna type.

[spiralingmoon]

Thanks, no problem. If I could do it again, I would have done it differently too last night. No worries, there are more total eclipses coming up.

Thank You~

[elizabetta1]

These are exquisite Vanessa...I missed seeing it here, too cloudy but these are winderful...Thanks for posting them.

Hope you are well.
*HUGS*
e'bet'ta

Re: Thank You~

[spiralingmoon]

You are so very welcome. I'm doing well thanks. I hope you are doing fine too.