Pictures of the eclipse

I shot these since the blackout gave me a nice without lights view.

As you can see, I managed to get Saturn and Regulus also.

And one as the eclipse was ending.

Lunar eclipse tonight

Lots of information on the web.

As the moonlight dims — it won’t go totally dark — Saturn and Regulus will pop out and sandwich the moon. Regulus is the brightest star in the constellation Leo.

The eclipse will start about 9pm and go for about a half hour.

The Freeman had a picture with a line that, for some reason, cracked me up.

The lunar eclipse is safe to view with the naked eye.

NASA on the eclipse.

Back to the Future

From the Daily Mail,

The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist.

Holy Time Machine, Batman! It sounds like an H. G. Wells book. And who said science doesn’t have original ideas.

And back to the past,

The image of Neanderthals may be in need of a makeover: scientists say at least some of these extinct hominids could have had fair skin and red hair.

Neanderthals lived in Europe and Asia about 400,000 years ago. They were replaced by early modern humans. Researchers have long debated whether the two groups mixed together, though most doubt it. The last evidence for Neanderthals dates from at least 24,000 years ago.

Maybe, but I’ve seen some folks in my time in Papua New Guinea who could physically pass for Neaderthals.