Total eclipse of full moon NOW Wed 845 pm eastern

[Voice for Peace]

for any lunatics on DU

The moon will enter Earth's umbral shadow (the full shadow) at 8:43 p.m. ET (that's 7:43 p.m. Central, 6:43 p.m. Mountain and 5:43 p.m. Pacific) on Wednesday, Feb. 20. It will appear as though an ever-larger bite is being taken out of the moon.

Some 78 minutes later, the moon will slip into full eclipse. About 51 minutes later, a bright scallop will appear as the moon starts emerging. It will be completely out of the umbral shadow at 9:09 p.m. Pacific time, which is 12:09 a.m. ET on Thursday morning.

[TommyO]

1. The sky here cleared up, and now the moon is being eaten!

[EV_Ares]

2. I'll be out there watching, all fellow DUers be sure and wave, eom.

[Laurier]

3. Thanks for the reminder

It looks amazing!

[Earth_First]

4. Just went out with the binoculars...

Last full lunar eclipse until 2012.

[Voice for Peace]

6. It's amazing to look at the moon and see our own shadow

[DemoTex]

5. Watching in a clear, cold sky. About 50% now.

Greenville, SC.

[Rockholm]

7. The moon looks AWESOME!!!!

It was supposed to be cloudy here, but gorgeous clear skies and the moon is about half gone. Had the binoculars out. Cool, cool, cool!

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

8. This post is useless without pictures

:silly:

[Voice for Peace]

10. LOL! What planet are you on?

[L. Coyote]

9. Now close to fully in the shadow, a crescent of direct illumination remains

as the moon continues to rise over the Oregon Cascades.

[Voice for Peace]

12. no, no, it's rising over our nation's capitol

[HughMoran]

11. Thanks!

I got some pics of it - wish I could have shot a pic through the telescope!

[goodgd_yall]

13. What a great break from that GD:P madhouse!

It's lovely.

[Pastiche423]

14. I'm sitting here

at my computer, looking out the window, watching the moon get bigger.

[Elidor]

15. My vision is so bad, it's wasted on me

Just a bunch of fuzzy lights in the sky. But some of the pics DUers have posted are stupendous.