On Saturday and Sunday we, the human population, had an opportunity to see the moon completed blotted out by Earth’s shadow in one of those rare events known as a Lunar eclipse. Personally I’ve always thought solar eclipses to be the more interesting variety and so I never even bothered looking for the moon over the weekend.

However, thanks to the power of the modern computing, below is an animated version of the entire phenomena, for those like myself that want all the reward without any of the effort. I have to admit, the orange glow that appears on the moon during the middle of the action is kind of cool.