Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Eclipse at Moonrise

NASA ^ | October 11, 2014 | (see photo credit)

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Explanation: As the Moon rose and the Sun set on October 8, a lunar eclipse was in progress seen from Chongqing, China. Trailing through this composite time exposure, the rising Moon began as a dark reddened disk in total eclipse near the eastern horizon. Steadily climbing above the populous city's colorful lights along the Yangtze River, the moontrail grows brighter and broader, until a bright Full Moon emerged from the Earth's shadow in evening skies. Although lunar eclipses are not always total ones, this eclipse, along with last April's lunar eclipse, were the first two of four consecutive total lunar eclipses, a series known as a tetrad. The final two eclipses of this tetrad will occur in early April and late September 2015.

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[Credit & Copyright: Zhou Yannan]

[mikrofon]

Natural Chinese fireworks

[Cvengr]

Ebolaclipse this afternoon.

Saw it clearly from CA,...using a pinhole and paper shadow of course.

[SunkenCiv]

I forgot about it, but we probably had no shot at it, here on the edge of the zone.