Lunar Eclipse with the Winter Solstice

10:20 PM

"Ghostly shading of the moon, marking the arrival of Earth's faint out shadow, or penumbra"
(Quotes are coming from descriptions from National Geographic.)

10:35 PM
"Dim 'bite"=Earth's shadow advancing across the moon"

11:05 PM
Bigger "bite"

11:45 PM
"Total Eclipse-when the entire moon is dimmed by Earth's shadow"
(Blurry photo because I could not keep the camera still above my head and there was a constant cloud cover during this time! This was the best photo shot of the 10 that I took.)

12:00 AM
(Blurry photo, again)

12:15 AM
"Moon plunges into the Earth's umbra-the dark center of our planet's shadow."

12:30 AM
The glow of orange.

For Family Home Evening last night, we went about 30 minutes away to walk down 2 streets that had Christmas lights and a ton of cartoon wood cutouts! Most of the cutouts were Disney, but we saw Calvin and Hobbes, Nightmare Before Christmas, Wallace and Gromit, etc. too.

We got home around 9:30 PM, started to get ready for bed and then we saw that a friend on Facebook posted about the lunar eclipse and saw that it would begin at around 10 PM our time. All of us except for Hard-working Dad were able to see this spectacular view of the moon until 12:30 AM when the moon's color appeared orange. AMAZING!!!!