August 28, 2007
This Morning's Lunar Eclipse
Unobstructed full moon (3:56 AM); Partially eclipsed (5:13 AM)
Chances are most of Philly missed this morning's lunar eclipse, which began at 4:51 and reached totality at 5:52. As the sky brightened in anticipation of sunrise about a half hour later, the moon completely disappeared, and was in total eclipse when it slipped below the horizon.
Philadelphians can catch the next total lunar eclipse, without missing much sleep, on February 20-21 from 8:43 PM to 12:09 AM. Miss that one, and you'll have to wait until the end of 2010.I'm going back to sleep.
Photos by author, SkyscraperSunset.com.
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Phillybits here. Stupid me, after posting a week in advance about the eclipse to alert local readers to this incredible event, I got the night confused and ended up missing it last night thinking it was tonight. I'm so upset about this considering that the Perseids got rained/clouded out a couple weeks ago and I was really looking forward to the eclipse as a make-up event.
Thanks for posting the pictures.