So I, along with the rest of the population, made sure I had a good view of the lunar eclipse. Thankfully the room where my desk is at has a nice large window of the eastern sky.

I had looked up data on the internet and viewed images of previous lunar eclipses. Apparently the moon would have a reddish glow to it, which I was looking forward to seeing. Sadly until the eclipse actually got close to completely covering the moon, my view was blocked by clouds. But it didn’t really matter, as I soon found out.

You see if I would have been a bit smarter, I would have figured out that I would need more than just my two eyes to see it the way one should watch an eclipse: With a big huge expensive telescope. That’s alright, as someone was kind enough to link me to a website that was taking live shots from a big huge expensive telescope with a digital camera taped on to it (I’m sure it’s not really like that). The pictures they took? Amazing.

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So thank you people with big huge expensive telescope, you have inspired me to find a nice open field with a decent telescope in 2010. Lets just hope for no clouds.