I was at the lunar eclipse watch at Harmon's in Draper with SLAS and 500-1000 of SLAS's closest friends. Truly a highlight was to watch the moon rise over the mountains in partial eclipse. "A first quarter moon in the east." Totally agree with Chuck, it was much darker than expected. Mentioned that to many people within earshot of my scope. Looking through a C-8 during early totality, no features on the lunar surface were visible. About 15 minutes into totality, features started to appear, but were darker than expected. Wonder how much atmosphere we were looking through made a difference. About 15 minutes into totality some features did appear. Hooked up my camera to the scope and struggled to find focus. Nothing to key into except the lunar edge. There was a hint of color to the unaided eye and photos taken by a variety of people show an orange to reddish hue. Certainly not the blood moon (except one photo Ryan has used on the SLAS facebook page, pretty thin blood on that one, but definitely red). About mid totality cirrus clouds moved it and almost obliterated the moon entirely, but they didn't last. SLC lucked out and got a visual treat last night. Wall Street Journal has a 60 second video of the eclipse. Nicely put together. http://www.wsj.com/video/rare-supermoon-lunar-eclipse-in-60-seconds/23E3E4BD... for those of you, like Dave :( who missed it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 5:11:04 AM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Last night's eclipse We had a nice view from our front yard. The moon rose partially eclipsed as expected, into a thin cirrus layer but was into a patch of clear sky by totality. The moon was visibly darker at mid-eclipse than the last one, which was debated as having perhaps not been truly total. I was using my vintage 8x30mm Sans & Streiffe binocular which gave a pleasing image scale. Had to turn-in at mid-eclipse to get up early this morning for work. A nice way to end the current "eclipse season" of lunar eclipses. We have to wait a while for the next series, but at least we have Mars to look forward to in 2016. _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".