The clouds faded way earlier in the evening, yielding a crystal clear sky. Moon was absolutely brilliant before and after eclipse.
While it was progressing, I opened a live YouTube session presented on a site called Virtual Telescope, where an astronomer in Italy was linked to several astronomer/photographers that had good views, mostly in the USA. Poor guy couldn't shoot anything there in Rome due to horrible weather and he had the flu to boot, but did a good job presenting all the good telescope sites.
Anyway, because it's so damned cold here, I bobbed back and forth between the YouTube channel with their gorgeous live photos and outside here with binoculars. The views here were excellent and I only wish I had my telescope set up. It would have been very time consuming to do considering the cold and snow, and I just bought it a couple of months ago. It would have needed to acclimate to the bitter cold, so I decided against doing that exercise (which I would have done in my earlier years).
Regardless, my son and I enjoyed seeing it in person and I captured several screen shots from YouTube for the memories.
Thanks for the OP and great photo, LakeArenal.........
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