Besides taking photographs of the eclipse, I also watched the eclipse with just my eyes and with binoculars. I made many trips between the inside of my house and the telescope outside. I set up the observatory’s portable 3.5-inch Questar telescope in my driveway to which I attached my digital SLR camera. However, the sky was mostly clear much of Sunday and into the night. That wouldn’t have been safe for our guests. Consequently, there was much ice and snow around the observatory where we would have watched the eclipse. Then after the snow came very frigid temperatures-the temperature fell throughout the day Sunday, and it was in single digits Fahrenheit by the beginning of the eclipse. We had much rain on Saturday, followed by several inches of snow overnight. But concerns about the very cold temperatures and safety at the observatory for our guests prompted us to cancel it. We had planned an eclipse-watching event at Johnson Observatory here at the Creation Museum that night. The night of Sunday–Monday, January 20–21, 2019, there was a total lunar eclipse visible across the Western Hemisphere.
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