Spectators stay up at Chabot to watch Blood Moon eclipse glide across the night sky

DOZENS OF PEOPLE at the Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland pulled out lawn chairs, set up their telescopes, and bundled up in thick blankets as they gathered with excitement for a lunar eclipse watch party early Tuesday morning. 

Locals from across the Bay Area sipped hot chocolate and patiently waited hours for the clock to strike 3:04 a.m., the time when the moon would be completely eclipsed from the Sun behind the Earth’s shadow.