Black Rainbow Road
Dec. 1st, 2020 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nozomi604I got to see the late-night, penumbral lunar eclipse last Sunday.
I was looking out my bedroom window, at around four in the morning (I usually sleep between 4-11AM), while sitting in my computer chair. The moon was mostly hidden behind the clouds, and very dim, so I didn't expect anything much to happen. But something about it called my attention, and I opened the blinds, then pulled them up for a better look. The cloud cover was thinning, and the light was changing dramatically; for a minute or two, it was extremely bright, then the moon dimmed in a way that was not-cloud, leaving a strip of darkness. Along the edges on both sides of the strip, there were glowing sections of cloud, giving the effect of a dark road in the sky with lit-up borders.
I didn't know it would be so impressive! It's easy to see why lunar eclipses have been linked with magic.
I was looking out my bedroom window, at around four in the morning (I usually sleep between 4-11AM), while sitting in my computer chair. The moon was mostly hidden behind the clouds, and very dim, so I didn't expect anything much to happen. But something about it called my attention, and I opened the blinds, then pulled them up for a better look. The cloud cover was thinning, and the light was changing dramatically; for a minute or two, it was extremely bright, then the moon dimmed in a way that was not-cloud, leaving a strip of darkness. Along the edges on both sides of the strip, there were glowing sections of cloud, giving the effect of a dark road in the sky with lit-up borders.
I didn't know it would be so impressive! It's easy to see why lunar eclipses have been linked with magic.
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Date: 2020-12-06 07:56 am (UTC)