Harvest Moon Eclipse
Explanation:
A Harvest
Moon rises over Sesimbra Castle
south of Lisbon in this impressive series of telephoto exposures.
Captured at its full phase, the golden Moon was also
gliding through the Earth's more diffuse outer
shadow during September's
penumbral lunar eclipse.
The eclipse shading is subtle compared to a total lunar eclipse.
Still, the penumbral shadow
does darken
the Moon's upper limb,
the pale shadow receding as the Moon climbs into Portugal's evening sky.
In
this eclipse timelapse the effect of sunlight and earthshadow
on the Moon looks remarkably like the coloring of light and shadow
along the illuminated castle walls.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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LHEA at
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GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
