If you want to see something beautiful in Jersey...

...sometimes you need to look way, way up high.

I took these pictures of last night's lunar eclipse from my back deck out in Old Bridge, in my own ham-fisted style - that is, I grabbed an older-model digital camera and stuck its snout down the throat of my telescope and snapped away. Suprisingly, I got a few good ones (I think):

Not quite yet total....

Funky colers; cool contrast. Is this natural or just a by-product of my amateur style?

Now it has that rust color going....and the man in the moon looks like he is shrieking....

..and now the Rock styles itself in blood-red....

Nice....thanks, God! What an awesome Creator we have, that can make something as galactically commonplace as the transiting of space rocks look so damned beautiful !