What the moon looked like tonight from Sault Ste. Marie

This sequence of images of tonight's lunar eclipse was sent to us by local photographer Neil MacEwan.

Despite an initially unfavourable weather forecast for Sault Ste. Marie, local viewing conditions were good during most of the event, and people could be seen outside with necks craned skyward all around the twin Saults.

To see an image of the eclipse taken tonight by SooToday.com News, please click here.

It was the first time in history that a lunar eclipse took place while a World Series game was taking place, although there were too many clouds above Busch Stadium for any of the 52,037 fans there to see it.

That didn't stop sportwriters from weaving the heavenly event into their narratives as they waxed eloquent about Boston Red Sox 3-0 series-winning victory over the Cardinals.

Some were textbook examples of purple prose:

"Relievers Bronson Arroyo and Alan Embree worked the eighth and Keith Foulke finished it off for his first save. Even the heavens reacted to the news with a total lunar eclipse." - Ben Walker, Associated Press

"The fact that the victory occurred during a lunar eclipse, when the moon turned from white, to orange, to red only underscored the dreamlike feeling." - Pam Belluck, New York Times

"Cosmic coincidence or omen, they did it on a night when a lunar eclipse turned the moon pinkish red, not unlike the blood stain on Curt Schilling's sock in Game 2. - Steve Wilstein, Associated Press

"They'll be more than a baseball team. They'll be a morality play and a life lesson. They'll be more cosmically significant than the lunar eclipse that hung hauntingly over Busch Stadium on Wednesday night. Until then, let's remember the Boston Red Sox as something more basic. Like the best team in baseball." - Richard Justice, Houston Chronicle

The last total lunar eclipse was on May 4, but that one wasn't visible from North America.

The next total eclipse of the moon will not happen until March 2007.