The eclipsed moon

After weeks of not seeing the moon due to immensely cloudy skies and rainy evenings, yesterday proved to be different. At about midnight, the clouds cleared up enough around the moon to allow me to take some quick snapshots of its fullness on my camera. But it was just too bad that I wasn't able to see the moon much earlier in the evening. It would have been a wonder to see the totally eclipsed moon rise in the eastern sky. But I was lucky to have caught the event streamed live through YouTube by the people in Semporna, East Malaysia. I managed to tune into their livestream minutes before the moon moved totally into the Earth's shadow.

The 99.9-percent full moon photographed from my house at 12.10am

The totally eclipsed full moon at 6.20pm as seen from Semporna in East Malaysia. The dark streaks were light wisps of clouds moving in Earth's atmosphere