August 28th Lunar Eclipse Pictures

For those of you in Australia that missed this Tuesday’s full lunar eclipse below are my series of pictures that chronicle the full lunar eclipse.  This eclipse was actually a pretty big deal here in my north Melbourne neighborhood because a number of my neighbors were sitting in their porches and yards watching the eclipse.  The kids were especially having a blast with this lunar eclipse.

The eclipse began around 6:50PM here in Victoria:

About an hour into the eclipse some clouds rolled in obscuring the view which caused a lot of my neighbors especially their kids to start groaning:

Fortunately the clouds went away and the neighborhood had a good view of the eclipse again:

It took nearly 2 hours for the entire moon to be eclipsed:

The moon went nearly completely dark during the full eclipse:

After about 30 minutes some light began to appear from the moon again:

Eventually the moon began to appear

This is what the moon looked like around 10:19PM:

Here is moon around 10:30PM:

Just after 10:30PM the eclipse was pretty much over:

The full lunar eclipse made for a fun and interesting night and my wife and I were glad to be able to experience it with the rest of the neighborhood.