Wow.
My entire life, I’ve always associated lunar eclipses with something that you tell your grandkids about. Something like “It was amazing. Everyone was out in the street just watching it.”
The only thing I could think about the entire time was that this was never going to happen again in my lifetime, and that it was an entirely wasted opportunity. I feel like I should have arranged some sort of get together where a group of us could lie around in the grass and talk while it was happening, or something, but instead, this rare marvel of planetary physics went by in a completely uneventful fashion. I didn’t even have the heart to stay out there for the second half of it.
Now, don’t get me wrong, it’s an amazing thing to watch, but just sitting there watching it by yourself is possibly one of the most depressing things I’ve ever done.
I’m entirely ashamed at having wasted it =(
PS – This is what it looked like, according to my phone:
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Yeah, I happened to be still awake at 3 AM so I went to see it. It was cool. I remember there was a lunar eclipse when I was in third grade…but I guess it wasn’t a full eclipse if it wasn’t supposed to happen again in my lifetime *shrug*