Lunar Eclipse! (updated)

A lunar eclipse will be visible tonight in North America. The eclipse will be visible in the Central Standard Time zone beginning Dec. 20 at 11:29 p.m., and will end Dec. 21 at 5:05 a.m. The full lunar eclipse will be visible around 2 a.m.

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Update:

I ventured out in the cold (Florida style) last night and saw the show! I must say, it was amazing. The eclipse was *not* just darkness when the earth interrupted the light from the sun to the moon. The moon became a bit reddish yellow. I tok several shots with the trusty cellphone....stay tuned for those...

Any of you see the eclipse? It was truly spectacular! I lived in Ireland for some time and Newgrange was a fantastic attraction. Newgrange is a structure built centuries ago that was designed so that on the winter solstice, a ray of light would shine in a small opening, oriented just so that the situation would work. Here's a more erudite explanation and a photo from http://witcombe.sbc.edu/sacredplaces/newgrange.html

"Newgrange, built around 3,200 BCE and recently restored, is a great circular mound of earth and stone 250 feet in diameter encircled by a ring of standing stones. The interior is solid except for a single stone-lined and stone-capped passage 62 feet long and 3 feet wide which terminates close to the centre of the mound in main chamber with a corbelled vault 20 feet high and three recessed chambers.

The entrance, in front of which is a massive curbstone (10 feet long, 4 feet high) carved with spirals and lozenges, incoporates a roof box which allows the sun, at sunrise on the morning of the winter solstice on December 21, to penetrate the full length of the interior passage all the way to the main chamber. A similar carefully calculated phenomenon is also found at Abu Simbel in Egypt."