Total Lunar Eclipse

The starting, center, and end of a tear via planet Earth’s colourful umbral shadow is captured on this timelapse composite image of a total lunar eclipse. Taken on November 8 from Kitt Top National Observatory this eclipse’s 1 hour and 25 minute long total phase begins on the simply and finishes on the left. Reddened daytime, scattered into the central shadow by Earth’s dusty atmosphere produces the dramatic shadowy crimson hues mirrored by the lunar disk. For this eclipse, extra reddening is seemingly attributable to scattering from ash lingering within the atmosphere after a sexy volcanic eruption within the southern Pacific earlier this 365 days. Seen at the simply and left, the Earth’s shadow is unruffled lighter along its edge despite the proven truth that. That faint bluish fringe along the lunar limb is colored by daytime filtered via Earth’s stratospheric ozone layer.