This was the view from my kitchen porch last night, just before totality of the lunar eclipse. We had clear skies until about 10 p.m. CST, then overcast started to set in. But from the beginning to totality, we got a great view.

The redness of the eclipsed moon, btw, is caused by sunlight that refracts through the earth's atmosphere and then reflects off the moon our view. The refracted light is reddish for the same reason that the setting or rising sun is reddish - the red end of the spectrum refracts more than the shorter wavelengths and so we see more of it.

It was a great show.

Camera: Canon A710IS, resolution 3072X2304, trimmed down to 838X720, handheld on auto setting.