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Woke up at 5am to see the eclipse. Just my luck the moon enter the penumbral eclipse before it set. As it went behind the trees I swung over and took a peek at our ringed neighbor. Was able to distinguish the Cassini Division in the rings,wasn't able to do that with my old telescope. Nice and crisp morning to view the early sky.

I woke up at about 6:30am CST, and went outside to look at the moon. It was below the tops of the trees, but I could see it between the branches and I could get a good viewpoint in some areas. I observed it with my naked eyes and with binoculars, and watched it from when it was a sliver until it went into a full eclipse. It passed below the horizon before it came out of the eclipse.

Observed April 4th's Lunar Eclipse from the street in Orange County. I set my alarm for 4:15PST and got up to find the moon at about 75% and getting dimmer. Now I know why it is called a "blood moon", it was clearly red. Great observation.

Watched the lunar eclipse. It went completely red around 5am.

I woke up around 4:30 to set up and view the "blood moon". By the time I had finished setting up in my backyard I had about 15 minutes until total eclipse. I took several pictures holding my phone up to the eyepiece. Unfortunately I was not able to get any partial eclipse shots as the moon was too low in the sky. The moon was a distinct hint of red but through the telescope the color was much more prominent.

04/04/15 Lunar Eclipse

Photos were taken using my phone camera, Samsung Galaxy S4. This was my first time taking pictures on the telescope.

Observing conditions: the eclipse began when the moon was ~30 degrees alt, and continued until below the horizon. The sun began to rise, and the moon was no longer visible after a short time through the camera.

Link to album: http://imgur.com/a/2K8Ev#0

Went up to Fremont's peak on Friday to camp out and see this sight. Very clear, especially nice with a wide field 80mm refractor.

Saw a tiny sliver of the eclipse before the moon was too low and the Sun came up.