Eskimo North

Tonight, starting at 1:51AM Pacific time there will be a lunar eclipse. Totality will be unusually long, starting at 2:52AM and ending at 4:23AM. Partial eclipse will end completely at 5:24AM. This eclipse is unusual in that the moon will pass very close to the center of the Earth's shadow so it should be unusually dark and of coarse totality lasting more than an hour and a half is unusual as well.

One photo just as the eclipse approached totality. I will post more later. I'm too tired to process now.

Of course getting up (and ready) earlier than normal can be tough for a sometimes-night-owl, heh... so I slept through it. Argh.

Here's a blog link to a good photo in the meantime, with observation notes I can personally attest to as well :
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That link is more how it looked just shortly after totality. As time went on it got darker and darker; at the max it was so dark that it was barely visible in the sky. I've seen many lunar eclipses here but never have seen one that got so entirely dark. But that didn't happen until about 40 minutes after totality started.