Lunar eclipse?

Question

I live in arizona, and there was supposed to be a lunar eclipse on Feb 20 2008. I never saw it, and the strange thing is that I think I saw one yesterday, on Feb 26. I even have pictures. Has anyone else seen this, or am I just going crazy?

Answer 1

Yesterday was June 26 bud.  I don't know if your calendar is wrong, or if this is a story from months ago.

But, I am confused.

Answer 2

It probably is very possible for something to be seen in one part of earth and not in another.

Answer 3

In a lunar eclipse, the moon is full, and then the shadow of the earth covers it over a period of an hour or so.  It doesn't get completely dark, but is usually a reddish-brown color.  Then the shadow moves on across and it goes back to its normal brightness.  There won't be another one visible from North America until July of 2009.

Answer 4

What you saw was an effect of Earth's atmosphere, probably caused by air pollution of some kind. Any forest fires upwind of your location? They've been seeing red Moons and Suns in California recently because of forest fires.

Lunar eclipses ONLY occur at Full Moon, and are visible simultaneously over half the Earth. Solar eclipses ONLY occur at New Moon, and are visible in narrow paths across the face of the Earth. Yesterday was neither Full Moon nor New Moon, so what you saw could not be an eclipse. Yesterday was actually Last Quarter Moon, exactly half way in between Full and New Moon.

Answer 5

I assume you mean yesterday, June 26.  There was not a lunar eclipse yesterday.  They can only occur during the Full Moon phase, and yesterday the Moon was waning just past last quarter, on it's way toward New Moon phase.

Perhaps you are inferring a Solar Eclipse?  That can only occur during the New Moon phase.  Yesterday, the Moon was not in alignment for either type of eclipse.  Sounds like somehow the clouds and the Sun angle, or some other atmospheric phenomenon, were such that the Sun took on a reddish appearance from your viewpoint.