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  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    We just checked in the Greater Houston Metro Area and there is no moon to be seen as yet, super or other.

  6. 6.

    Rob

    Moon was half-visible about 10 minutes ago, now completely obscured by clouds. Time to put on the Pink Floyd?

  7. 7.

    Mike in NC

    CSI series finale runs two hours tonight, and the commercials seem to come every five minutes. So maybe half an hour of actual programming?

  9. 9.

    thruppence

    Scattered clouds here on the left coast, but the eclipse will probably be over by moonrise here. Hope to be wrong.

  10. 10.

    TaMara (BHF)

    I drove out to the country, found a road I didn’t even know about – kind of slasher-flick-like – to watch the moon rise and a bit of the eclipse. It’s the best one I’ve seen in many years. I’ll step out my door in a while to catch the blood-letting part..

  12. 12.

    Diana

    Here in NYC people are standing in the street looking at it.

    But not for long; they sort of watch it for a few minutes and then continue with wherever they were going.

    Modern attention spans. Sheesh.

  13. 13.

    JPL

    @Baud: What is you lose interest in the presidency? You aren’t allowed to pull a Sarah Palin and grift the rest of your life.

  14. 14.

    MobiusKlein

    Moon rising here in 10 minutes, probably obscured by low clouds for the early part.

    Got the telephoto & tripod set up just in case it clears out. And happy birthday eve to my twins!

  15. 15.

    Wag

    Driving through the Colorado Rockies and the moon is playing peekaboo with us. Pretty cool. And the moon is huuuuugggeee.

  16. 16.

    MattF

    Some videos from BAHFest (The Festival of Bad Ad Hoc Hypotheses) at the bottom of the page. I hesitate, because it’s all, y’know, a joke… But the videos are pretty funny.

    ETA: Via Language Log.

  21. 21.

    FlyingToaster

    Totally clear near Boston; over half gone, and a distinct copper rim at the top.

    Debating with myself as to waking up WarriorGirl, or making her wait until she’s 11.

  24. 24.

    Betty Cracker

    I went out and checked even though it’s been raining off and on. For a few minutes, there was a break in the clouds and I could see it!

  25. 25.

    HRA

    I took 3 photos with my I-Phone camera from my back yard when it was visible. The clouds covered it for a while. Now it seems further away as well.

  27. 27.

    Wag

    Nearly total as we are driving by Lake Dillon. Nice reflection and the moon is right betwee two 14,000 foot peaks.

  32. 32.

    Schlemazel

    Clouds broke, getting a decent view near totality I think. Gonna try to photograph it though it is not the red I have seen in pictures. Woo-hoo

  34. 34.

    TaMara (BHF)

    Tween next door, sitting on the deck, feet propped up, talking on his phone, “Dude, I’m telling you, I’ve got the best view of the eclipse right here. RIGHT HERE.”

    Glad to hear he’s enjoying it.

  35. 35.

    Central Planning

    Clouds just started coming in here in Rochester, NY. Was a nice show for a bit. I’ll go back out and check soon.

  38. 38.

    Matt McIrvin

    I let my daughter stay up to see the beginning of totality. Now inside waiting for her to get ready for bed.

  39. 39.

    Tenar Darell

    Sitting in a lawn chair on the sidewalk at end of driveway in a dark zone between back porch automatic lights and streetlights. Full dark orange now. Totally clear in Boston area. Getting a little colder. Wow, look at all those stars.

  40. 40.

    A Streeter

    @Diana:

    Here in NYC people are standing in the street looking at it.

    Here in DC also. People go out and watch for a few minutes, then go back in. The net crowd on the streets is pretty striking for a Sunday evening in this rowhouse neighborhood.

  47. 47.

    FlyingToaster

    It’s a dark copper color here just west of Boston; not the bright copper I remember from the last time I went out to see one (on the field at Tufts, IIRC).

  48. 48.

    JPL

    @HRA: Send them to your email and then forward to Betty. Anne seems to be having problems with her email. Just an idea.

    One time I set up a phony image account and then posted the link.

  50. 50.

    Aleta

    Watching it up north; very clear for once, and very nice sight on a nice night. .All reddish now; someone quoted in the NYT explained the red as the reflections of the sunrises and sunsets happening, which is such a nice way to describe it.

  51. 51.

    Schlemazel

    Got a couple of pictures and it looks much redder than it does to the eye. Not great pics but cool because of what it is.

  52. 52.

    Mary G

    I am sitting in my driveway looking at it. Not too red, probably too much light pollution, but it’s cool.

  53. 53.

    John Revolta

    The Moon Have Turned To Blood!!!

    Crystal clear skies here in America’s Heartland. Last time I saw a blood moon this cool, I was working at a RenFaire north of Chicago. 1982 I think. My gal was part of the College of Wizards and we were all standing on top of this earth mound inside of which was where the wizards all hung out.

    Certain exotic fungi may have been involved. To make matters even stranger, working with us that year was a feller who had bred these unicorn critters- goats, actually, with long silky coats and one big horn in the middle of their forehead. He and they were wandering around the scene acting wizardy. That’s showbiz!

  54. 54.

    Aleta

    The kid next door (in his 20s) who almost never leaves his house any more (haven’t seen him in a few years) came out to take pictures. A good opportunity to speak with him and offer the binoculars.

  55. 55.

    Bill Arnold

    Stars are nice without a fully-lit full moon. Andromeda galaxy not far away (in angular distance), nicely visible in binoculars.

  57. 57.

    ruemara

    I am far too sober now, so I think I shall curtail my grinding of the rep and step outside to see if I can see anything.

  58. 58.

    Rob

    We finally did get some pretty good views of it a half-hour ago before the clouds rolled in again, in Maryland.

  59. 59.

    mclaren

    Will be out looking at the sky, but if I hear infernal piping sounds and cries of “Ia! Ia! Shub niggurath!” will run fast.

  63. 63.

    TaMara (BHF)

    I know that super moon is a misnomer, but when you watch people pull over to the side of the road to watch it rise, take photos and oooo and aaahhh at it, that’s pretty super.

  65. 65.

    Jay C

    Typical crappy viewing here in NYC: lots of ambient light, haze, clouds, etc.; but I went out just after 10:00 ET, and got to see the last bit of the occultation, and watched it turn red before the clouds rolled in: very cool.

  70. 70.

    Bruuuuce

    Just back in from a week-late birthday dinner for my elder offspring, and we were fortunate that the predicted mostly cloudy night in NYC has turned out to be largely clear. Got a nice view of the sky while walking three blocks home, with LOTS of people from the neighborhood outside and taking blurry pics on their phones. Unfortunately, most of the places where the sky is visible are also where there is too much ambient light, like street intersections. Neither the better half nor I wanted to stand outside, but since she’s walking slowly anyway, we had a good look while strolling through the garden enclosed by our building complex..

  71. 71.

    Elizabelle

    Got to see it, in NoVA. Clouds, but occasionally a brilliant clear sky. Got a good picture of it (OK, blurry, but you can tell it’s a reddish sphere). I see where a tripod could come in handy.

    Clouds filled in after full eclipse, and haven’t seen it much since.

    But thrilling to see it. Roused some neighbors from the Broncos game, and more were in the court.

    Bummed for those whose weather did not cooperate.

    Thinking the Pope and his pilots can see it well, don’t you think? They’re flying east, above the clouds.

  77. 77.

    Elizabelle

    I remember that Hale-Bopp (?) comet. It was so bright, quite sure the dogs were watching it, night after night.

    That was the Marie Callender’s comet, right?

  81. 81.

    philpm

    For the first time in my 48 years, had a completely clear sky for a lunar eclipse. Found a nice dark spot to watch it go total, and also got to see a couple of meteors and a satellite crossing the sky as well. Very cool!

  88. 88.

    sparrow

    Amazing eclipse down here in New Mexico. Nice to be with a bunch of astronomy geeks (not to be confused with professional astronomers, who often don’t know one end of a telescope from the other, aka, me) PLUS I could see the milky way when it got dark, located Andromeda by eye and saw half a dozen super-bright meteors including one that broke into pieces and was visibly on fire.

  89. 89.

    CaseyL

    Just went outside. The moon is a gorgeous darkish red. Still below the treeline, so I’m hoping for a better view as it rises.

    I remember the first time I saw a red moon, through a telescope. It really looked “round,” that is, like a globe. I mean, of course i know the moon is round, but it usually looks like a bright disc, you know? Not when it’s eclipsed. (The reddish cast gives it that shading all art students learn about when they start drawing solid objects.)

  90. 90.

    Elizabelle

    @jeffreyw: Oh, so you know what kind of camera you have and everything, huh?

    I swear, I think a barnyard animal could take better pics than I do. Although did get a marvelously orange globe a few moments ago. You can tell it’s not fruit.

    I’ll just tell people I was in a moving car.

  93. 93.

    Tommy

    @Elizabelle: I don’t use the equipment anymore, but I got some pretty expensive cameras and lenses. My experience, even more so when we moved from film to digital (I went kicking and screaming I might add) is that you take a lot of pics. I got a lot of amazing pics in my life not so much because I am “good” but because …. well effort.

  95. 95.

    Elizabelle

    @Aleta: Yeah, truly.

    Saw that Neville Brothers moon again. It’s way higher, and still beautiful, and protected behind clouds too much.

    Think most of my neighbors are power sleeping now.

  96. 96.

    Elizabelle

    @efgoldman: So glad you can see it. Yea. The granddaughter will be driving next time the circumstances align, no?

    It was warmer outside, each time I ventured out. The clouds are keeping it temperate down here.

  97. 97.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    It was a bit cloudy here, but I managed to snap some good pics. I’ll share one when I’ve got’m uploaded.

  104. 104.

    Bill Arnold

    The eater of moons has rejected our moon, whew, and it’s now showing about 5 percent sunlit area on the left side.

  107. 107.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Elizabelle: Thanks. The kid and I went hiking on Wednesday, but the basin was pretty much just haze. We still had a great time, though I ended up skinning up my knee a bit. Good thing I brought my nurse along with me.

  109. 109.

    Suzanne

    Damnit, it is still really hot, and Yeezy is still not on.

    However, it looks like the moon has a French manicure. Cool.

  112. 112.

    Geoduck

    SW Washington state; Missed the first part of it because it hadn’t risen far enough, but no clouds so I got a good look at the orangish part. Had to unscrew the auto-lighting lamppost out by the driveway.

  113. 113.

    Tommy

    @Aleta: I am an atheist but I kind of really like this Pope. If he came out and said with Galileo we kind of fucked up, made a huge mistake. Speaking for the church I am sorry. If he did that it is about as close as he’d come to converting me.

    I know the folks here are so smart and sharp. But I bet about 95% of the population have no idea what the Catholic church did to Galileo.

    In 1610, Galileo published his Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger), describing the surprising observations that he had made with the new telescope, namely the phases of Venus and the Galilean moons of Jupiter.

    […..]

    Galileo went on to propose a theory of tides in 1616, and of comets in 1619; he argued that the tides were evidence for the motion of the Earth. In 1632 Galileo, now an old man, published his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which implicitly defended heliocentrism, and was immensely popular. Responding to mounting controversy over theology, astronomy and philosophy, the Roman Inquisition tried Galileo in 1633 and found him “vehemently suspect of heresy”, sentencing him to indefinite imprisonment. Galileo was kept under house arrest until his death in 1642.

    It is at this point I post this …..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RiU2T4Psyc

  117. 117.

    Tommy

    @Omnes Omnibus: I’d like a little more than a press release. But you are correct. I am just kicking myself because my brother’s wife, well her parents have some money. They tend to buy things and not use them.

    I was there this weekend and they have maybe a $5,000 telescope that has been used once. It appears to serve as a place to hang clothes. I hope it goes without saying that kind of seems like a waste.

  119. 119.

    Matt McIrvin

    I saw one once where the color at totality was so dark that the Moon almost vanished completely. I think there had been a major volcanic eruption not long before and there was an unusual amount of dust in Earth’s atmosphere.

  120. 120.

    jeffreyw

    @schrodinger’s cat: It’s a no-name aluminum tripod I’ve had for over 40 years as best I can remember. It’s a piece of junk but I’m too damn cheap to get a decent one. I do have a good heavy cast iron tabletop tripod I bought for a spotting scope a while back from Cabella’s. Good for food shots.

  121. 121.

    Steeplejack

    I left my rooms in Threadkill Lane about 8:45 and stopped to get gas before setting out for Dulles. As I left the gas station I saw the (full) moon to the southeast in a gap in the clouds. When I got to Dulles and picked up my friends, we saw that the moon was almost half eaten. Marveled at that for a moment and then got going before the cops could roust us. That was about 9:25. Then on the way into D.C. they occasionally oohed and aahed as they got another look at it. I was on the north side of the car and couldn’t get a peek. By the time we got to their apartment on C Street N.E. there was nothing to see. End of story.

  122. 122.

    Tommy

    @schrodinger’s cat: My polite response is there is a lot of shit going on in this world and hard to keep track of everything. Hard for me to keep track of all that is going on.

    My not so polite response is we’re just flat out lazy intellectually.

    My take is the first. I can’t even keep up with all I am supposed to be outraged of as a liberal in 2015. Hard for me to hold outrages from like 1630 :).

  125. 125.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Tommy: I would offer this as friendly advice: Assuming people will get your references is the better policy on this blog. If people don’t get them, they will ask or google.

    ETA: I’ll also note that the fact that you wanted to expain it to us but did not know about the Catholic Church’s apology says something.

  127. 127.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Just got back to the hotel from a nice evening of eclipse-watching. We had an early dinner in Oak Park with friends — the kid who lived next door to us (who is now 70) and his wife. They’ve become good friends. Restaurant was a Mexican-fusion place owned by a guy from the Gaza Strip.

    After dinner, the friends invited us over to watch the eclipse. We sat in lawn chairs in their back yard for a couple of hours, sang every moon song we could think of (in four-part harmony, mind you), and watched the moon gradually disappear, turn rosy, then gradually start to reappear. There were patchy clouds but enough clear spaces that we had a lovely view almost the entire time. During our (rare) quiet moments, we just grooved on the sounds of crickets and tree frogs and night creatures.

    Just as we were getting up to leave, a blimp flew directly overhead! I think it’s the one that’s been flying over Wrigley Field the last few days. I tried to grab some pictures, but the iPad camera isn’t good at capturing eclipses and moons and nighttime blimps.

    It was a wonderful evening.

  128. 128.

    Tommy

    @schrodinger’s cat: “jeffreyw” appears to take far better pics then I take but I want to be clear on something. He noted he uses a triapod that is 40 years old. So do I, one my father gave me. You can find one at a flee market for a few bucks.

    It isn’t the equipment, sure a good camera helps, but more the desire to take pics. Lots of pics. This is where I fall down.

  129. 129.

    Mike in NC

    @efgoldman: CSI: Cyber is awful.

    CSI: NY had a horrible cast so we avoided it.

    CSI: Miami also had a horrible cast, but we hate-watched it just to mock David Caruso and his sunglasses.

  131. 131.

    Mike J

    @Omnes Omnibus: This is one of the few places on the web where it’s hard to be too hip for the room. Even when you do mostly succeed at baffling most people, there are always a few who will pop up and add something you didn’t know.

  133. 133.

    PurpleGirl

    @efgoldman: From past shows I would have thought Russell leaving Vegas would have him returning to Seattle to buy a certain house with his wife. And making Willow’s daughter a CSI was too cute, I thought. Yeah, I’ve seen one or two CSI: Cyber and don’t bother with it anymore.

    ETA: Didn’t watch either Miami or New York during first run, see them periodically as reruns. Caruso is so mannered… can’t stand it.

  136. 136.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Tommy: And then you explained anyway.

    @Mike J: I agree that this place is full of obsessive weirdos. Not excepting myself.

    Watching Vampire Weekend on Austin City Limits and considering a copyright violation case against Ezra Koenig for stealing my haircut.

  139. 139.

    Hungry Joe

    Just got back from the San Diego Blues Fest. Closing act: Booker T. Jones. Just to the left of the stage a blood moon rose over the marina.

    I was half expecting a nostalgia act, but Booker T. and his band just TORE IT UP.

  143. 143.

    Tenar Darell

    @Omnes Omnibus: Blimps are awesome! A flying craft of that volume, but “lighter than air” is a thing of beauty to behold. One of these days I’ll get a ride on one like my father has.

  145. 145.

    Tenar Darell

    Oh no! The Death Star is circling our planet!

    Wait, the eclipse is almost over. Bloodmoon back in 2033.

  146. 146.

    Mike J

    @efgoldman: Have you ever seen the charts of the Tommy Westphall universe? On the show they made references which showed that St Elsewhere was in the same universe as Cheers. Which was the same universe as Frasier. Which was the same universe as Caroline in the city, which was in the same universe as Friends. Ergo, St elsewhere was in the same universe as Friends. And so on, to Green Acres and beyond

  147. 147.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Mike J: Christ, somewhere I have a chart like that with English punk and post-punk bands. It’s like a family tree crossed with a wiring diagram.

  150. 150.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I’ll put in another pitch for Galileo’s Daughter for those who haven’t read it. A lot of Galileo’s problems were political, not scientific, and had to do with the ongoing Counter-Reformation wars that were going on that the Pope was involved in.

    Short version, Galileo was scientifically correct, but kind of an asshole about it and pissed off the wrong people. If you know a particular powerful cardinal doesn’t like you, don’t put a character clearly based on him in your book and repeatedly call him an idiot in Latin.

  152. 152.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I’ll put in another pitch for Galileo’s Daughter for those who haven’t read it. A lot of Galileo’s problems were political, not scientific, and had to do with the ongoing Counter-Reformation wars that were going on that the Pope was involved in.

    Short version, Galileo was scientifically correct, but kind of an asshole about it and pissed off the wrong people. If you know a particular powerful cardinal doesn’t like you, don’t put a character clearly based on him in your book and repeatedly call him an idiot in Latin.

  157. 157.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Mnemosyne (tablet):

    If you know a particular powerful cardinal doesn’t like you, don’t put a character clearly based on him in your book and repeatedly call him an idiot in Latin.

    But it is so fun.

  159. 159.

    Gian

    Great visibility, started a conversation with my 1st grader about how the world will end and that she doesn’t want to die.

    her older brother wasn’t any help.. Thanks for when the dun goes red giant… that’s f-m comforting to a 6 year old.
    and yeah the best science now (meaning it could change) says the universe basically just expands, freezes and fades to black

    how about tomorrow we watch some interviews with people who managed not to die in concentration camps? that’ll be freaking cheerful, and yeah dad just went godwin on you kids. (to be clear, thought but not said to kiddos)

  162. 162.

    seaboogie

    @Omnes Omnibus: You’ve gotten rid of all the blimp-mocking folks in your life? That’s quite a particular criterion.

    I work one PT shift a week in our local bookstore in Sonoma, CA, and spoke with a fellow a few weeks ago who was looking for books on airships, which is what the dirigble cognoscenti call them. So I asked him if he was ever on one, and he said yes. I asked what it was like, and he said in today’s smaller blimps, it’s kind of like being on a gentle swing. We had a good long convo about airships in history, and it was really interesting.

    And with this, a gentle request to not be such a hardass with Tommy. He is a pretty sincere fellow, and he is one of the dudes re-designing the BJ website, so it might behoove you rein in the snark slightly for our greater purpose, if for no other reason than you can think of – than that he is re-designing your forum.

  168. 168.

    Steeplejack

    Some interesting Lon Chaney movies on TCM tonight. Right now it’s He Who Gets Slapped (1924), with a young Norma Shearer, directed by Victor Sjöström. This movie was the first release by a new studio called MGM, and it was a big critical and popular hit.

    At 1:30 EDT it’s Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928), with a very young Loretta Young.

    If you have clown issues, maybe give these a miss. If you don’t have clown issues, you might get some.

    After that it’s Costa-Gavras’s The Confession (1970), a political thriller with Yves Montand and Simone Signoret. (Note: Not a Lon Chaney movie.) Haven’t seen that one since college. I mention it because it has never been on TCM before.

    Sjöström was an interesting guy. He was born in 1879 and started out in the early days of silent movies (in Sweden), both acting and directing. He directed The Phantom Carriage (which TCM showed a month or so ago) in 1920 and got picked up by Hollywood. He did about a dozen movies here (with his surname Anglicized as “Seastrom”), including The Wind (1927) with Lillian Gish, and then went back to Sweden, where he continued his long career, mostly as an actor. He ended his career on a high note, as the lead in Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957). He died in 1960.

    ETA: Dick Cheney could probably make a pretty scary clown movie.

  171. 171.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @Aleta:

    It’s tricky, because Galileo’s real crime was not science, but being politically tone-deaf:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair#cite_note-46

    When you name a character “Simplicio,” make him an idiot, and then put the words of the current Pope in his mouth even though that same Pope has defended you in the past, you’re going to end up under house arrest and possibly be shown instruments of torture.

    It wasn’t really about the science, it was political, which is also why Pope Ratzy had to deal with protesters.

  173. 173.

    jl

    Visiting folks in Central Valley. Clouds, but they broke up to give some great views at total eclipse and as full moon emerged from the penumbra (I think I got the terminology right).

  174. 174.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Aleta: Okay. And as noted above some people are still outraged by the sack of Constantinople.

    @seaboogie: Fine. I offered him an editorial note and made some comments following up on that. When he made what I perceived to be a factually incorrect statement, I countered it. I did it exactly as I would any other commenter.

    Since your mileage differs, where was I too harsh?

  175. 175.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @Steeplejack:

    There’s also “The Unknown” with Joan Crawford, which also takes place in a circus (but Chaney doesn’t play a clown in that case). Director Tod Browning had literally run away and joined the circus when he was a young teenager, so he and Chaney made several circus-based movies together.

    Browning is probably best known today for two films: the “Dracula” that starred Bela Lugosi, and “Freaks”

  181. 181.

    seaboogie

    @Omnes Omnibus: It just felt like gratutitous assholery – he never seems to bring snark, and yet you offer smack-down on technical points, and he is not engaged in the same battle. I guess it’s kind of a “fight someone your own size” kind of deal.

  182. 182.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @seaboogie: I suggested that he assume people got his references. I wasn’t being snarky with him. If you want me to unload with my actual opinion of him based on comments he has made I can. I did nothing of the kind tonight.

  183. 183.

    Steeplejack

    @seaboogie:

    I have to weigh in and say that I almost went after Tommy because of the “95 percent” comment. “Please don’t take my words out of context.” But what he actually said was pretty much the opposite of what he thought he said. For someone with a master’s degree in journalism, he is an awful writer. I think most of the time he gets in trouble because he trips over his own feet, not because of malicious intent. Which is why I pulled my comment.

    I was actually pleased to see that he is working on the site rebuild. He seems to know his stuff regarding FYWP, and I suggested in one of the site-rebuild threads that the powers that be consult him. (Not that I presume any correlation.)

    Then of course later my hopes were dashed because he was popping off about threaded replies, like/dislike buttons and other things that make my hair stand on end. I guess the proof will be in the pudding, as they say.

  184. 184.

    Suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: Ezra Koenig has very nice hair. If yours looks that good, I wiukdjust enjoy it rather than fuck it all up with litigation.

    The world needs as much good hair as it can hold.

  193. 193.

    Fair Economist

    Saw the eclipse from St. Mark’s Square. Nice bonus for my vacation. Absolutely spectacular – it would have been the best lunar eclipse I’d ever seen even without the setting. Sadly my cameras couldn’t photograph it properly.

  195. 195.

    JustRuss

    Caught some of the eclipse last night, but what really hit me was the moon-set this morning. At 7 AM it was just over the horizon, and I can’t remember ever seeing a moon that big. Spectacular.

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