Sunday night there was a full lunar eclipse, most of which was visible from Dewees.  A spotty cloud cover made for periodic moments of haziness, but the real clouds held off until the last quarter of the event.

The more the moon was covered, the harder it was for my poor phone to get a crisp image.

And then the cloud cover came in in earnest.  This was an especially “large” eclipse, because the moon was at it’s closest to earth.  It was the last in a “tetrad” of lunar eclipse, which began in 2014.  This post from last October has photos from the first of those eclipses. This calendar provides the schedule for future astronomical events.  If you’re making future plans (and I know some vacationers from the UK who already have this one on their schedules), there is a major solar eclipse that should pass right over Dewees Island on August 21, 2017. Here’s a great map at NASA that shows the best viewing spots for that total eclipse of the sun. (Click the link to actually explore the interactivity) We’ll see you out there!