Last Lunar Eclipse of 2010 is Tonight: Are You Staying Up?
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2010/12/20 15:12:48
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I took several very bad pictures too.
It was a little eery to see my familiar friend covered with an actual blood colored veil.
Off putting-
Earlier in the evening,. the moon was very large- it looked like a Harvest Moon- but it's too late in the season for that.
Many years ago, I was driving from Pittsburgh to N.Carolina- and over the horizon was a bloody red moon that came up from the horizon of the road, and covered the sky- I've never seen anything like it- it filled the roadway- it seemed to be a mountain- it was gigantic-
I'll be looking at the moon tonight to reassure myself that all is well on my planet.
watching BBCs live feed from Belfast.
The moon is not visible from my window and it's much too cold to be waiting outside, plus I'm just getting over a cold!
According to NASA, the total phase should last about three and a half hours when it begins as a partial eclipse at 1:33 a.m. ET and it will finish at 5:01 a.m. ET. The totality phase -- when the moon is entirely inside Earth's shadow -- will last approximately 72 minutes.
eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH20...