Eclipse at Moonset
Explanation:
The Pacific Ocean
and Chilean coast lie below this sea of clouds.
Seen through the subtle colors of the predawn sky
a lunar eclipse is in progress above, the
partially eclipsed Moon growing dark.
The curved edge
of planet Earth's shadow still cuts across the middle of
the lunar disk as the Moon sinks lower toward the western horizon.
In fact, from this southern hemisphere location as well as
much of eastern North America totality,
the Moon completely immersed
within
Earth's shadow, began near the time of moonset and sunrise on October 8.
From
farther west the total phase could be
followed for almost an hour though, the darker reddened Moon still high
in the night sky.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
