An Nearly Entire Lunar Eclipse

Predawn hours of November 19 discovered the Moon in partly cloudy skies over Cancun, Mexico. Captured on this telephoto snapshot, the lunar disk is no longer reasonably fully immersed in Earth’s dusky umbral shadow all the way thru a lengthy partial lunar eclipse. The partial eclipse became deep though, deep ample to display screen the dimmed nevertheless reddened light in Earth’s shadow. That is a inspect in most cases anticipated by fans of entire lunar eclipses. Wandering thru the constellation Taurus, the eclipsed Moon’s dimmer light also made it more uncomplicated to plight the Pleiades smartly-known person cluster. The stars of the Seven Sisters share this frame at the upper appropriate, with the practically totally eclipsed Moon. Significant APOD Submissions (to this point): Lunar Eclipse of 2021 November 19