wet and cloudy weather was to blame in sydney , where the sydney observatory said the short lunar began at 11.03 pm -lrb- aedt -rrb- and finished at 11.03 pm .
` our live feed from griffith observatory is showing gorgeous totality pink ! ' observatory staff wrote on twitter at about 11 pm , accompanying their tweet with a picture of equipment showing off the bright pink moon .
` it 's highly likely that it will still be cloudy .