lunar eclipse
If you missed it, or live in a cave and didn't know about the total lunar eclipse that happened ridiculously early on the morning of December 21st, 2010, I have pictures! You won't get to see another one from North America until April 15, 2014. Before Wayne and I went to bed that night, we got out the big tripod and my tiny Panasonic Lumix and set them up. I set the Lumix to it's 'night scenery' setting, because I can't be bothered to figure out the optimum manual settings. I also set out warm clothing to jump into when the alarm went off at 3:00AM. Then we went to bed and I did my usual before sleep reading (I was reading a really good book... Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart, which I hope is not a foretelling of the world of the next lunar eclipse in 2014). The book was so good, that I didn't put the it down until something like 1:30AM. Two minutes later, the alarm went off. Wayne, jumped right out of bed and got dressed ...