Last Tuesday (28 August) we were treated to a brilliant celestial display: a full eclipse of the moon by the earth. It last almost 2 hours and, at the apogee at 8.30 pm, the full moon (in a cloudless sky) turned red-brown surrounded by a feint lighter circumference where the earth's shadow was incomplete. Surface features, such as craters, disappeared and it was almost creepy to see the earth's shadow edging across the moonscape.
It sure beat the last full eclipse of the earth by the moon I saw from the top of Dartmoor. That event was spoiled by heavy cloud.
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Check out this photo of it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gavz/1282408412/
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