Super Moon - Blood Moon- Full Eclipse

September 27th was a good night for sky-watching.  For the first part of the eclipse, the moon appeared quite clear among the stars.   It looked a lot like an  orange ping-pong ball.  Spectacular! Right after this picture was taken (back yard, front-row seats), clouds obliterated stars and moon.

Taken by JNC, Backyard Photographer

I was remembering back to what I saw on August 25, 1990 as I drove west along an expressway, and later wrote about it:

The crescent moon
rose,
milk white,
yellowed, 
took on an orange cast
as it began to sink
toward the horizon;
then it dimmed,
turned blood red,
and was swallowed up by the night.