posted on May, 16 2022 @ 03:26 AM
a reply to:
lostgirl
[Southern Indiana] It was raining here most of the late afternoon/evening, and still completely covered with clouds when the partial lunar eclipse
began. I didn't expect to see anything at all. Then shortly after the total eclipse began, it surprisingly started clearing up. I hopped in my car and
went a couple miles to a pretty good spot with no lights anywhere near, on the other side of a big hill then down across the river where you can only
barely see a little bit of ambient light from this small town.
At first, I was seeing it good periodically through the holes in the clouds. Then somehow the sky was mostly clear right before maximum eclipse and
stayed that way for maybe 30 minutes, gradually thickening back up with clouds and completely cloud covered around the end of the total eclipse. Right
when the final partial was beginning, it was completely cloud covered again so I drove back home.
I really wish I had gotten it before I went to the river, but I forgot til I got out there and still wasn't thinking I would see much.... So on my way
home, I stopped by my dads while he was asleep and got his expensive telescope. I had never actually used any good telescope ever before. My vision
was getting pretty bad so I wasn't entirely interested in using his when he bought it a few years ago, but I finally gave in and got contacts a few
months ago.(long overdue)
Anyways, after I got home it was still pretty much completely cloud-covered, but then gradually started opening up spots here and there but cleared up
to about 50/50 before halfway through the final partial eclipse. By the time the moon was 2/3rds of the way back out, it was mostly clear. Then about
20 minutes after the whole thing ended, I could barely see any moonlight peaking through the clouds. It was completely overcast again.
I was/am extremely surprised that the timing of the clouds worked out ok. It was far from ideal, but compared to what I was expecting it turned out
good. I even watched an airplane fly past '
a few inches' beneath the bright 1/4 eclipsed moon. I was able to follow it along with the telescope
for a short distance until it '
ran into a tree'.
edit on 5/16/22 by BrokenCircles because: (no reason given)