Feb 212008

As I write, in the wee hours, the freezing rain has just begun to fall. All weather predictions are a craps shoot but, with ice it seems that it must be harder to predict.

I went over to weather.com to see what the guess is anyway. We are under a winter storm warning blah, blah, blech. It’s one of those websites where I always click on something inadvertently and it seems like I’m constantly scurrying to find that one small piece of information that seems elusive. Maybe it’s just me.

Why do I need an interactive weather map? Weather is already interactive. I just want to maybe see a satellite image or Doppler radar or something. It doesn’t need to be something to play with like a kids menu at Denny’s.

So, I heard a lot of stuff about this lunar eclipse and I thought I might try to get some pictures of it. The news said that the prime time would be 8-8:30 in this neck of the woods. Unfortunately, by that time there was a lot of cloud cover and it wasn’t visible at all. I did take a couple of test shots earlier though, including this one.

moon-shot-eclipse.jpg

Now, I don’t have a lot of experience taking pictures. Does anybody have any clue what that is on the left side there?