Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse of April 15 2014

At 10:50, Sun's shadow began to eat away at the Moon, just before midnight the eclipse was total.  The stars came out and I viewed mostly using 12x50 binocs as well as 80ED at 120X and 80F15 Vintage at 55X.

Just after dark, set up and quickly viewed Jupiter and Castor.  Diffraction rings were barely visible for Castor.  Jupiter was washed out.

Watched the moon rise through the window inside, waiting for the big show!

Around 11 began to go outside to check the progress.

Viewed Blood Moon near Spica , Mars near opposition, Saturn.

After full eclipse Jan and Watson and I viewed Saturn and Mars and the eclipsed Moon using 12x50 binoculars and 80ED scope.

Saw Globular Clusters:  Omega Centauri (Ω Cen), M4 in Scorpio, M12, M10, M14, M107 in Ophiuchus, M56 between Lyra and Albireo,  M13 in Hercules.

Double Stars:  Albireo, Mizar, epsilon Lyra (ε Lyr),

Galaxies:  M81 and M82 in Ursa Major were bright and easily found in Binocs!

Could just barely see  Ω Cen naked eye!

Bright Meteor ended the evening as I was just putting the equipment away!

Big view:

The next day got a message from Wayne (Mr Galaxy) about the sun spots so took a look !  From spaceweather: