If you didn’t stay up until after 2am to see the lunar eclipse last night then, like Mrs. Landingham, I don’t even want to know you. But if you did, then you got to see something totally nerdtasticly awesome! If you didn’t, then I of course, am your man and stayed up all that time taking photos of the eclipse just so you wouldn’t feel left out. Also, just so you won’t feel left out, the Moon is being nice enough to do another three consecutive total eclipses, known as a “tetrad” between now and September 2015.

I planned to go to bed around 11pm and wake up just for the peak of the eclipse, but I couldn’t fall asleep. So I decided to chill (literally, it was really cold) on my balcony for nearly three hours watching the shadow take over the moon. It was really cool if you’re into that sort of thing. Julia slept. I woke her up for the peak. She said “cool” and went back to bed. I thought about waking Naomi up because what if she grows up and thinks this sort of thing is dumb and maybe this will be the only time in my life where I can watch a lunar eclipse with my daughter because somewhere along the way I screw things up and she doesn’t like science and that would be awful. I didn’t wake her up.

If you missed last night, you did miss something kind of special. The eclipse happened on the same night as the closest approach of Mars to Earth in years. It was only 57.4 million miles away! This will never happen in our life time again, so there’s that.

So, enjoy the eclipse!