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Don't forget this event.from about 9m in the UK.

It should be a Blood Moon.

Guess what? After weeks of clear skies, it’ll be cloudy, if not raining, tonight. Typical :-0 :-D

We may be lucky Det.

Also about 3 hours ago Mars was at its nearest to Earth since 2003 so is fairly bright.

The moon will rise as the sun sets. Moon will be low in the sky, first yellow then red.

I'll let you know! :-D

Saturn and Venus will be visible :-)

Complete cloud cover here this evening. :-(

Happening as I post.

For the first time in several days, no cloud cover :-D

Here in WA we will be able to see it almost in its entirety, just over an hour.

Mars appears so close

Lucky you Allan. Wouldn’t you just know it.........clear skies till half an hour ago, now thick black cloud, thunder, lightening and rain :-| Not much chance of seeing the eclipse here tonight.

Sigh - what did I say? :-0

Still beautifully visible, but there is a bank of cloud moving in from the West

Fortunately, the cloud has dispersed :-D

Well that was a sight worth watching. There must also have been an exceptionally high tide as I could hear the breakers from outside the house and we're a good couple of kilometres from the ocean, as the crow flies

Ah well, just have to wait for 270 years :-(

I'll try to keep the appointment! :-D

Almost back to normal

I would so much like to have seen that.

We went to Folkestone sea front to have a clear view across to France, but there was thick dark cloud. Eventually we decided to leave, but went to the hills above the north of the town, hoping it had cleared a bit. We could see lights of ships in the Channel and harbour lights in France, but no sign of the moon. We saw some spectacular lightning though and experienced sudden tornado-like conditions, before the storm began. Dust and leaves were flying everywhere and it all started in seconds.

It really was a fantastic sight, Gwyn. I saw it from about 0345 when I got up until about 0615 (WA Time) when the moon was almost out of the eclipse. The proximity of Mars was also something to behold.

As I posted earlier, the clouds that have been around all week, and threatened to appear again this morning, dissipated.

Mother nature is marvellous :-D

Lucky you Allan :-)

We went to our local beach and up on the dunes we had a good position. There were areas where the heavy cloud was dispersing but sadly obviously not where the moon was :-(

We did have a lovely walk though and I took some atmospheric photos in the twilight.

There's another one in January 2019 apparently :-D

Lovely clear views, we watched it from just after 8 pm (local time) until late. :-D