The Blood Moon and Mars

Seeing this was worth getting up at 4.30!!

[Ulrika]

Well done! I got up slightly later and it wasn't visible to me from my house... It was too low behind the trees and houses 🤪 I went back bed..

[Sarah]

Great shot. We had thick cloud so no chance of seeing anything?

[JackieR]

Oh well done. So very jealous ( in a friendly photography way!!)

[FBailey]

Impressive!

[Caterina]

Marvellous! here it would have been at 9 p.m. a decent time, and we had even organised a trip to the observatory, but the weather was not friendly and we didn't see anything.

[Casablanca]

Wow, amazing colour! Too much cloud here, saw nothing. Great to see yours.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

How beautiful! Yes, I'd get up for this too!

[Ko*]

so red... super...

[Marnie]

I got up and went out to look at it, but the colour was nothing like this, more of a muddy reddish-brown.

[Rob Z]

@ulla Hi Ulrika - we had a pretty good view of it for quite a while - just fascinating. And it wasn't too cold either....

[Rob Z]

@sarahlth That's a shame Sarah - they happen so rarely. It was the first one I've seen. :)

[Rob Z]

@caterina Sarah had the same thing happen - what a shame. It would have been wonderful at the observatory!

[Rob Z]

@caterina It hardly seems fair for you - no rain but then cloud when you don't want it. It changed colour many times - this was probably the brightest it got - and Mars was quite red at this stage too. Was worth the effort! Cheers Rob

[Rob Z]

@olivetreeann Hi Ann - it went through such a series of changes that it really kept you interested.

[Rob Z]

@madeinnl This was about the brightest it got - it actually went through a series of colours. Was pretty good to watch! Cheers Rob

[Rob Z]

@golftragic Hi Marnie - we watched it for about an hour - it went through a whole series of colours - this was probably about the brightest it got. I had the Vivid setting on my camera so it may be a little brighter here - pretty close though. It was a bit muddy at the start and more pink at the end - worth watching though - first time we've bothered. Cheers Rob

[Suzanne]

I think I would even get up for this! Fab shot

[Lesley]

Super photo..unfortunately cloudy here.

[Rob Z]

@suzanne234 Thanks Suzanne - it was cool the way Mars was also red!

[Rob Z]

@rosie00 Hi Lesley - it's such a shame that the clouds didn't co-operate in a lot of places. I think we were just very lucky. Thanks for your comment.