Anyone see the total lunar eclipse this morning? For well-situated observers (those at high elevation on the East Coast of North America), it was an opportunity to make a rare sighting of a selenelion event, in which both the eclipsed moon and rising sun are visible at the same time for a few minutes. I woke up a bit before six and saw the moon was about two-thirds occulted. I grabbed the binoculars I had thoughtfully set out the night before, but thoughtlessly neglected to remove from the case. I performed a torturous slow-motion Velcro disengagement, amazed at how noisy the process is. I gazed from bed through the window a while, then went out to the balcony to enjoy the display while early-morning commuters got on their way below. Astronomical phenomena trigger a deep psychological response in me, so watching Melancholia was like having a waking dream, and Return of the Native is among my favorites. I attribute this fascination to having been awakened in the dead of night as a child by my dad, who walked me out to the front yard in the cold and pointed out a blood red eclipsed moon. Timeanddate provided a handy table of localized timings, and totality was scheduled for 6:24. About ten minutes before that, I crept up to the sleeping boy and held his foot until he stirred. He opened his eyes and we had this conversation: "Do you want to see something?" "Yes!" Kids are the best. We stopped for a potty break and to put on his jacket, then went to the chilly balcony barefoot. We watched while the illuminated part of the moon got smaller and smaller until the whole disk was a dim red. By that time he was cold and scrambled back to bed and under the covers. A lunar eclipse is a relatively slow-developing thing, compared to the excitement of a total solar eclipse, which I have not yet witnessed despite being in Paris for the apocalyptic August 1999 event. (Check your calendar for one coming soon to a continent near you!) I passed the time as we do now, messing with my phone. Twitter was sputtering with updates and amateur photos. I tried to take a photo, first with digital zoom and then through the binoculars, just to see. As dawn broke, the sky lightened and the moon became faint. I couldn't see to the east anyway, but don't think I was high enough to perceive the syzygy of the moon, earth and sun in alignment. I watched as the moon faded and descended toward a rooftop across the street, until it was the faintest wisp of an arc in the binoculars, and finally became a round patch of sky where I knew the moon was.
Loving that second picture. My wife and I tried to catch it by setting an alarm but completely failed, succumbing entirely to sleep. If I had a child I think that would have been enough motivation to have broken through the haze, but a warm sleepy wife just didn't help the situation :)
I saw it too! Here's my photos from 3:55am-4:00am (taken with my dying iPhone 5s). Then we went back to sleep. 
Nice shots, in a challenging context. Some wag on Twitter complained that iOS 8 was supposed to have an eclipse photography mode. It always seems like a chore to set up the whole rig, but then I usually regret not having done so after an event like this.
insomniasexx, you saw it, right? I watched as the moon faded and descended toward a rooftop across the street, until it was the faintest wisp of an arc in the binoculars, and finally became a round patch of sky where I knew the moon was.
That is quite the description!