Blood Moon: The Lunar Eclipse of April 2014

Did you watch the total lunar eclipse last night? Judging from my Twitter feed, a lot of people did! Chatter and pictures were flying around the 'Net as the silvery full Moon slowly drifted into the Earth's shadow and turned a lovely shade of orange. I took the picture above at about 07:21 UTC (01:21 Mountain time, local for me), about 15 minutes after the total phase started. You can see the bright star Spica (the brightest star in the constellation of Virgo) just to the Moon's lower right, and...