Mike,

It was misty, but we could see the moon being eclipsed. The mists took away the color, so it looked grey to the eye, and even through binocs.In my picture from our front yard (attached) without any fiddling of the saturation of the digital data, the moon is clearly red .  The moon is at one side of the shadow umbra, so it looks like a crescent.  I couldn’t see the moon through my viewfinder, and had to guess at the centering, so I couldn’t zoom.  What you see in the picture is what you get with a 4-sec exposure and no zoom near the time of maximum eclipse.

I’m sure there will be some glorious pix on the web later tonight.

–rakkity

Michael,

According to the Acton web page, it’s clear right now. Tomorrow is supposed to be mostly cloudy, with clearing on Thursday. With luck you might be able to watch the lunar eclipse Wednesday night.
Out here in the west, it will be visible at dusk, but in the eastern US, you’ll see it around 10 pm.

–rakkity

Michael,

In case you have some time to be spared between shots of colorful vegetables, take a look at some of these strange photos of odd earthly objects seen from space.

For your next backyard project, maybe you and Matt can construct something unusual that can be seen from space, and that will find its way into the Google Earthly Odd Object database.  Like the largest green lime in the world–with a purple background?

–rakkity