...apparently some kind of a once-in-400-years lunar eclipse thingie...
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/12/attention-total-lunar-eclipse-tonight/68285
this is what the stages [will/did] look like... apparently around 3:10am EST is when the peak orange/brown look occurs.
http://test.alhafeezcentre.com/wp-content/plugins/rss-poster/cache/3b4b7_RB_Lunar-Eclipse-Phases-Center_10_29.jpg
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/images/nathanbarrow/2007/03/04/lunareclipse.jpg
http://www.myninjaplease.com/music/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/eclipse-lunar.jpg
(http://chris-lamb.co.uk/wp-content/2010/bender/01.jpg)
neat!
orange/brown moon = pretty darn cool, kinda surreal.
-but the "halo" in a huge round circle way far away from the moon = way cooler imo. (looked kinda like this: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2641/3776672632_40264f3e5c.jpg )
gnite folks.
It was pretty spiffy!
for those who weren't up that late, just click the links I posted in the OP and you'll see exactly what lucky folks like me (and my 3 kids!) saw at 1:05am local time thanks to the clear sky.
An hour or so before that was the "halo" which as I said was way cooler... http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2641/3776672632_40264f3e5c.jpg is kinda what it looked like, sorta like in Star Trek 2, after the Genesis Device blows up and there's a few "rings" way far away from the point of detonation, in the sky, live above our heads... freaky!
Awesome pic man!
Yeah when I last saw it it was just over Refinery Row and it was amazing