Did anyone see the lunar eclipse?

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I wish I had seen a Lunar eclipse.

Don't despair, hale_bopp. Lunar eclipses aren't all that rare, two per year, on average. The Earth's shadow is a lot larger than the moon.
In any case, this one wasn't visible at all in NZ!

NB. The next one is August 28th. and should be nicely visible (and total, for quite a while) in NZ. See http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2007Aug28T.GIF.
We get nothing here, 'cos it'll be around 10.30am, and hence the moon will be... how shall I put this... not visible... on the wrong side... your side.

The states have a (partial) solar eclipse coming up soon. I'm envious.

i seen it, it started at about 5 something and when it got dark and moon had risen i seen a tiny sliver of moon and thought hmm either i missed first part or its going into first part, so here i sat til about 8 watching the moon getting uncovered.

odd, when i was about 12 and younger, i was afraid of solar and lunar eclipses, and even the word ECLIPSE but now, hehe i even look on internet to find out when the next solor or lunar event is.

I saw it pretty well (Crawley, UK)

Yeah, I saw it too

I tried to take a picture of it, but it just came out blank

It's really hard to capture images of astronomical events. Even with what looks like huge, bright objects, tey're just not going to come out on film. We regard the moon as "a huge object in the sky", but it isn't. It's a dim object... almost unnoticeable against the background of stars.

I saw it, but it was rather disappointing. I couldn't see it go red.