Luna Eclipse

About 1 hour after total eclipse

Series of Lunar eclipse / Solar eclipse this year and next year

Yesterday, April 15, 2014, there was a Lunar eclipse in North America.  According to the news, there will be a series of Lunar / Solar eclipse events this year and next year.  Yesterday's event is the first one.

Here in northern California or San Francisco bay area, the eclipse started around 10pm last night and it was end around 4am in the next day.   After midnight, it was total eclipse and the moon was getting into red, it is called "blood moon".

Unfortunately, the sky was not very clear last night and some time cloud covered the moon.   Since the progress was slow, I was doing something else other than observing the event.   When I got out the back yard, it was around 1am and the moon was almost total eclipse.   I tried to take some photo of the total eclipse.  However, due to some cloud covered the moon, my photo was not very good.

 It is not very clear, but this is the total eclipse

The moon was red!

I gave up to take photos.  But before going to bed, I checked out side and sky was getting clear, the moon was like a half moon.  I took some photos that is shown on top of this post.

This year, there will be another Lunar Eclipse on October 8 and there will be another two events in April and September.  There will be also two Solar Eclipse, but they won't be seen in North America this year.  There is more detail information on NASA web site.

There will be some events next year, 2015 as well.  

A series of such event is not typical, it is good for kids to see the events.  I guess it would be much better to see on a book. 

Next one will be coming October!   Let's mark this date on a calender and see the whole event!