(Added: Photo by David Hutchinson, taken from Alki just before 6 am)
5:40 AM: Anybody else up watching? Took us a while to spot it through one of the trees across the street – we’re used to seeing moonsets over Vashon, but this is more a straight line over Blake Island. If you don’t have a view of it – here’s a webcast.
5:51 AM: Just a small lip of moon visible now. Saw a meteor while out on the corner watching.
6:22 AM: Clouds are obscuring it from here (north Upper Fauntleroy) – but they do appear to be fast-moving, with some holes, best as we can tell despite the street lights etc., so all hope may not be lost for reappearance, and your vantage point may be different! The timeline in the link above says totality will last another half-hour or so. (Here’s a direct link to the narrated webcast on slooh.com.)
6:40 AM: Still in the “total” phase till just before 7 am. Alki photographer David Hutchinson just shared a photo (thank you!) that we have added above, from “just a few minutes before 6:00 am, when the moon went behind a layer of clouds.” We’ve also received a reader note warning about frost-slippery roads this morning: “Coming home from watching the eclipse, I just almost got hit on Jacobsen as the car coming downhill slid across the center line into my lane. Please caution people to drive at safe speeds!”
7:11 AM: The sky’s getting light, and the clouds don’t appear likely to provide another peek at the moon (which is emerging from the shadow again), but it was cool while it lasted … Next total lunar eclipse visible from here, April 2014.
ADDED SATURDAY AFTERNOON: A few more photos – thanks! From Trileigh Tucker (click for a larger version – a few planetary/star pinpoints are part of the image):
From Craig, 5:16 am from the main Alki business district:
Emily Austin shared photos too:
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