Perfect weather for Tuesday's pre-dawn eclipse: crystal-clear, cold crisp air. The moon was close to the horizon during totality (and it set before totality ended), but the air was so clean that the low angle didn't dim viewing at all. Click the picture above for more shots, taken from up the hill at Valley View Farm.
By the way, from Alaska and parts of Asia, the moon occulted the planet Uranus during the eclipse: see APOD photo. Here in Massachusetts, Uranus was pretty far from the eclipsed moon—the moon's position among the stars depends a surprising amount on where you are on Earth.
This was the last total lunar eclipse until March, 2025.
