Tonight’s Lunar Eclipse was underwhelming
We caught the moonrise this evening to check out the lunar eclipse. Unfortunately the west coast is on the tail end of the region in which this one is observable, so there wasn’t too much to see. A nice deep yellowish color as it came up, but if you weren’t looking for it you might not have noticed anything other than a full moon. I wasn’t motivated enough to try shooting a photo that would come out visibly different than a normal moonrise photo. It would probably be more visually representative to take a regular photo and tweak the color in Photoshop.
On the other hand, it did precipitate a fun dinner discussion about solar and lunar eclipses, and what it would look like on the moon. I don’t think they’ve been doing much astronomy in 5th grade this year.
Tags: moon, lunar, eclipse, nature, parenting
