Bad Moon on the Rise?

Went out last night to take photos of the big lunar eclipse.

It was both a Supermoon eclipse, as the moon was about as close to the Earth as it gets, and also the 4th 'Blood Moon' in a recent series of blood moons.

There's all sorts of religious, mythical and other attachments to such events. Whether they really mean anything I'm not sure. That's up to everyone to decide, and time itself. Anyway, on to a couple photos!

The night started with a awesome sunset. God beams on the horizon under the clouds. Wait - clouds? They'll obscure the eclipse! Fortunately, that didn't happen. The clouds broke up and mostly drifted away. They did get in the way briefly during the eclipse but for the most part it was totally clear! Unusual - the weather rarely seems to cooperate during such events.

I took a series of photos, made a collage as most people do showing the eclipse coming and going.

These were all with my smaller camera, and the exposures were off a bit, a little too overexposed on many. But it still made a good series all together.

There were a number of people out watching the eclipse when I was. Though everyone left by the time it was in full 'blood moon' eclipse. I was the only person watching the eclipse end.

Glad the weather cooperated. If I shoot one of these again I'm going to use my DSLR with long zoom lens so I can get closer and control the exposures a little more.