Cool, just saw this too on Yahoo news when I came online. Thanks, Alicia for sharing!

As this is a very important day I will be out there for it!

I hope to film it. Check out my video I shot this evening as the clouds pass the moon. Its in Off Topic...

Looking forward to this awesome event!

My question is what side of the airplane do I sit on to watch it? I'm traveling from Maine to Punta Arenas, Chile, so I'm going to also get the shock of moving from shortest day to longest day.

Isn't there a meteor shower too?

I'm trying to decide if it's worth waking my kids up to check this out.  On the one hand, it's cool and rare, but on the other, one of 'em has a social studies test the next day and might need his sleep. 

I'm such a lame dad.

Go to "Astronomy Picture of the Day" on your PC to see what this NASA website has to say about the eclipse tonight. Sorry I don't know the link.

Winter Solstice  (from Yahoo news)

For the first time in 372 years, the winter equinox and a total lunar eclipse happen on the same day, and North America is one of the best spots to view

http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/?vid=23549392

Timmy Dont be lame! Wake up the kids. Thats what cool dads do! This eclipes is too important event to miss for a lame test. Keep the kids home tomorrow and they will be able to make up the test. Or just tell the teacher your plans.

Look at it this way. If your kid is 5 years old....It would be his or hers great great great grand kids that could ever see this again. Talk about a family tradition! LOL

I will be up with my 11 year old checking it out. He is really into this kind of thing, which I love.

yes I am quit excited to see something so great and historic.

I am REALLY bummed, it's all clouds here in SE TN tonight. GRRR!

Its a nice cloud moveing evening here in Virginia. Real wintery preatty.

So far its very overcast here above Flagstaff too. Will see at 11 pm. 90% chance of rain tonight. Its 9:15 pm now.

Crystal Clear here in Northern VA. I am going to go out and take a couple test shots with the 18-200 lens.

Rain on the Oregon coast

You think we grown adults could be more like kids on christmas. LOL

This was the video shot I got here in Flagstaff, its not clear enough for my video Camera to focus on. I shot this at 11:50 pm.

It still overcast here, but I can see the moon and it looks like its starting to get shaded on the southeastern edge. But not clear enough to get a good focus on it. Its 11:40pm now.

Yes, I just looked again, its definetely started to shade on one side, but still too cloudy to see more than a blur. Can't focus on the moon. 11:50 pm

Now its almost half covered at 11:55. Says it should be 1 am before its total, but shouldn't take one more hour to do that unless it slows down.

No its too foggy to see clearly, my camera won't focus, looks like a full moon thru the viewing screen but to my eyes its definetely about 3/4 shadowed. Its 12:10 am

I just shot this image as it barely came out for a split second or two at 1:07 am I could barely see it with my eye as I aimed the camera at it, I clicked a couple frames as it faded out and is just barely visable now. To my eye, it looks grey.

It's a beautiful orange. The earth just completely blocked so the colors are pretty good right now.

Too cloudy here. I set my alarm anyway, just to check.

Thanks for sharing pictures, Gary.

It was too cloudy here, too.  I had decided to wake up the kids, but the clouds hosed us.  The downside was that I was then already awake and couldn't fall back asleep, so I meditated by candlelight for a bit and felt all deep until I conked back out.

It was cloudy here in south virginia as well. So Gary's picture is what I got. But I did stay up and then the big let down. Gary thanks for the picture and my friends who coouldn't see as well told me to pass that on!