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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Lunar eclipse

The lunar eclipse began on the evening of my birthday. I had a perfect view of the lunar eclipse last night, our cloudless, starlit sky made for a great background to the shadowed moon. 
As the earth slips between the moon and the sun, changing the color of the moon from white to orange, it is showing the effect the Earth's atmosphere is having on the color of sunlight passing through it.
 



4 comments:

Cheryl Anderson said...

Awesome pictures. Did it all happen really fast?

Sharon said...

WOW! That is beautiful.Your pictures are great. Thanks for posting them. It was snowing here, so we weren't able to see it.

Hope you had a great birthday.

Kali said...

That's really neat!
Hope you had a wonderful birthday!

Maggie said...

Happy Birthday!!! (a little late) Hope you had a wonderful day!!

The pictures look really cool! I bet it was even better in person. Beautiful!! What a great birthday present ;o)