Blood Moon

Did you get a chance to see last night's Lunar Eclipse? I was out to pick Cynthia up at the airport around 10:30, and it was just passing, and I can see why the Blood Moon has been an inspiration for superstition and fear.

There's a lot of material on the web if you're interested in lunar eclipses. NASA in particular has a lot of very clear, useful information. Earth & Sky has a graphic showing the position of everything in the night sky (for every night, in fact). Space.com has pictures from it, as well as a good hobbyist's overview. They point out that this is the first baseball World Series eclipse -- perhaps it was just that the stars (and moon) were right for the Boston Red Sox to finally break the Curse of the Bambino.

(The photo is from space.com and was taken by Mark Haccou, Vernon, BC Canada)

Edit: More wonderful eclipse photos at Flickr (via BoingBoing)