Did you see that Awesome Lunar Eclipse

[S1mplevV]

Hundreds of Bay Area folks - both stay-up-laters and early risers - watched a colorful total eclipse of the moon before dawn Tuesday as foggy skies cleared and the moon's bright white surface slowly turned to coppery red and brown.

The eclipse was on full display even in parts of San Francisco - along Market Street and in the Mission, for example - but fog over the Sunset and the outer Richmond disappointed anyone who had hoped to watch the event.

As scheduled, the Earth's shadow started covering the moon's face at 1:51 a.m. and the eclipse became total at 2:52 a.m. By 4:22 a.m., the moon emerged from the shadow, and by 5:24 a.m. the show was over.

Comments e-mailed to The Chronicle and SFGate.com, its online news site, came from everywhere - some anonymous and some not. This one from "Lianna" was typical: "The Goddess of Fog granted a reprieve for those who crossed the Golden Gate Bridge to see the eclipse - Spectacular."...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/29/BAQ8RQTH4.DTL

[Rhino]

I missed it. It was too early.

[Franko]

I finished up work at 5:30 a.m., (Ohio) went home, grabbed the digital camera about 5:50 a.m. and snapped a few shots, the last of which is in fair focus. Trying to hold the camera still with one arm held up in the air in my back yard made it a little difficult. Trees were partly in the way unless I did that. Just a sliver of the bottom of the moon was visible, with a dark, dull reddish tone to the rest of the moon.

[DesertFox]

Dang. It chose the very night I was diving at the South Pole.

[DoctorDoom]

For those (like pubblik skewl grajewits) who wonder what it was ...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/Science/MoonEclipse.gif