Blood Moon Monday Morning 21st January at 515am

It was on/off in Dun Laoghaire, very misty sort of high cloud but you could see the red during the earlier part of totality, and it cleared up nicely to see the moon re-emerge. As others notes, frustratingly you could see crystal clear skies to the East! Still very much worth watching.

Clouds never got out of the way in D24. It was a lighter cloud by 6:20am so I could make out where the moon was behind them and I think I could see the shadow, like a bite out of the bottom of it, but not clear enough to see the red or any detail. Disappointing, as the forecasts I checked all said clear skies in the east of the country - instead there were clear skies TO the east, while the all-important southwest side was cloudy

I saw a full blood moon in Scotland in Sept 2015 - was amazing to watch, so hope anyone who could see it today enjoyed.

Didn’t get a good glimpse of the eclipse due to cloud but the moon was very visible earlier in the night.

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Woke at 0440 went out and lo and behold a crisp clear night, no clouds. I could clearly see the reddish tinge to the moon. Unusual as most astronomical events like these are hidden by clouds but this was spectacular.

The clouds must have been very localised and intermittent, we were able to see a lot of the early part in Dun Laoghaire before the clouds rolled in but others in Dublin are saying they saw basically nothing at all. Got to see it during the red / totality phase which is the important thing! Only thing I'd have liked to have seen was the few minutes where it acutely transitions from its normal colour to red, and the reverse at the other end of the eclipse - as it happened, both of these parts were clouded. What that did mean was that we saw it in red, then it clouded over for 20 minutes or so, and then when the clouds rolled away it had gone back to white with a big chunk missing Would have been cool to get a video of that, but as most here will know getting decent night sky photos with a phone camera is a complete waste of time.

SmartinMartin wrote: »

Went down to Dollymount at 4.15, fantastic clear view of the eclipse and a beautiful red moon until 5, then all disappeared in cloud.

How long did the colour transition at either end of the totality period actually take? In Dun Laoghaire, cloud cover just happened to coincide with both ends of the totality, so we had white moon -> cloud cover -> red moon -> cloud cover -> white moon again. It was pretty much entirely obscured during the transitions. Was it an abrupt thing like with a solar eclipse, where it's like "sun disappearing, sun disappearing, *BOOM!* corona flares, *BOOM* sun reapparing" or was the colour change more subtle and spaced out?

I woke at 5am and said I'd just give myself a minute more to rest in bed before getting up.

I woke at 6:45