Last Tuesday night (28 August) we were entertained by one of the world's great experiences. It was a full eclipse of the moon by the earth and a beautiful cloudless night and the whole display lasted getting on for two hours. I was playing bridge at the time, but our venue had a wonderful viewing area just outside the emergency exit. Needless to say, the entire 12 playing tables decamped to the viewing platform at the end of each deal and the game was on the slow side.
At the peak of the eclipse, the moon turned a brown-red colour with a thin lighter halo around the edge. It was easy to make out the earth's shadow lying across the moon and the disappearance of its surface crater. In a way, it beat the total eclipse of the sun viewed from Dartmoor a few years ago. That event was spoiled by heavy cloud.
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