Celestial event

I didn't stay up, nor did I set the alarm, because I always wake several times in the night and rarely get more than 2 hours sleep together. Went to bed at midnight, thought 'I'll be awake by 1.30, probably again at 3.00 so that's all right'. I woke up at 5.34. Almost unheard of.

Losing an hour's sleep during the night was well worthwhile and the view from my upper windows was perfect. So amazing to have a cloudless night here in Cheshire. I fell asleep at once when it reached totality and slept until an hour later than usual. Feeling quite bright and perky this morning.

I stayed up to watch it. It was a lovely cloudless night here in Co. Durham so got an excellent view.

Unfortunately I had to get up early for granny duties; feel a bit tired now...

Watched part and took a photo

Got up at 3am to see it. Glad I did! Went back to bed and sleep. Woke up at 8am but stayed in bed as have teasmade in bedroom

Marvellous - one of the only nights I haven't woken up before 5am.

Fantastic photo Galen. I'm never drinking coffee again as I was still awake at 9 [did manage to doze for a couple of hours afterwards though]. And my utility room [and also kitchen] are both very clean and tidy thanks to my nocturnal business. I didn't think it looked any bigger than usual either but agree about the 3D effect.

Got up for the loo at 3.20 am and amazingly remembered to look for it. Despite street lighting was able to get a good look. Not bad but less than spectacular.

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Got up at 2am, watched the whole thing. Great show.

Lovely pic, Galen

Attaching another, taken around 3.30 this morning, East Lothian, Scotland. Beautiful clear starlit night. I stayed up for about an hour.

The image is a bit small and shoogly, but I was hanging out of my bedroom window with a hand held camera...

And I'm not planning to be around for the next one in 2033...

If I am, I'll be 89 and my hands are likely to be even shooglier

Bothiegran too...Our images crossed in the ether!

Doh! I didn't realise the moon didn't vanish in the eclipse but instead turned red. I thought it was meant to be red all along and then vanish.
I went and looked at it about midnight and it seemed full, bright and normally coloured so I went to bed.
Really wish I'd seen it, having had so much success with the meteor shower a few weeks ago

I was in my late husband's towelling dressing gown. Sitting on my patio. The picture is handheld, using my Panasonic with a zoom. I'd have done better to found my tripod, but cba at that hour

This was taken with a telephoto lens by my friend in Cheshire.

What I found fascinating was that, comparing it to a solar eclipse that you can't really stare at, as the shadow of the Earth moved across I could just think 'that's us and I'm there somewhere'. As I'm highly unlikely to go into space that's the nearest I'll ever get to that feeling.

What was the brilliant gold light near the eastern horizon, is it Mars?

Alas, with me it was a street lamp, crun . Never seen the Seven Sisters so clear before though.

What sort of Panasonic, Galen?
I had three cameras ready because I knew the batteries would run out at the crucial moment. I took most with a Panasonic Lumix, but it doesn't allow for shivering.
Who are these people who went to bed because they've seen it all before?
Last one was in 1982. I don't think we had a camera then, certainly not one that could take pictures of the moon.

By the time of the next one, I might have learnt how to use a camera properly. When I altered the aperture, etc., as advised on my programme, the pictures were worse because I could not be bothered to get my tripod.
Silly idiot!
Next time I'll be in my 80s. Possibly.

Fog, fog and more fog in the Vale of York. Woke up at 2.30am to see not a lot ! Moon was just visible and if anything looked smaller than usual. Very disillusioned I went back to bed.
The fog eventually lifted about lunchtime today.

DMC-FZ200

Mine's an FZ7.
Your's has a much better zoom than mine.

One advantage to moving from York, tiggy.

It was a beautiful clear night here in N. Ireland - I sat out back and watched it all through the apple and plum trees, in my dressing gown with dh's dressing gown over the top. Sheepskin slipper boots. And a fleecy blanket around the whole lot. It was well worth it. All quiet.
Didn't hear a sound of anyone else.

When I went to bed last night around 11.30 I looked at the moon and it didn't look any bigger than usual to me. I understood that it was supposed to be, and that added to the eclipse, would result in something spectacular.

It was spectacular for those who stayed up. No fireworks, just something beautiful, like all the stars and planets.