Moon Eyed, For Real

After that last post, I took a walk to the nearby Olive Garden (blah) to pick up some dinner...and realized that a lunar eclipse was occurring!

Tonight, it's a serious moon theme. I trudged through snow in the freezing Edmonton night to find a good vantage point and snap some pictures. I ended up having to sit on my heels knee-deep in snow to prop the camera on a post and take about 50 pictures. Then I called Wookiee and chatted for 20 minutes about eclipses, Somalia, the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, etc. It wasn't until after we hung up and I turned to walk back to the hotel that I realized that my wet-from-snow dress pants had been frozen into solid sheets. Fraking Edmonton.

Anyway, this is the best picture I could manage sans tripod or DSLR.


Wookiee tells me that the two bright objects above and to the left of the moon are Saturn and the bright star Regulus. Awesome.