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Summary:
This
was the rarest of all eclipses--a lunar eclipse of a Blue Moon on
New Year's Eve. Such an event happens only 11 times per millennium,
according to NASA's Five Millennium Catalogue of Lunar Eclipses.
The 8% partial eclipse was visible from Europe, Asia, Africa and
parts of Alaska. |
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Photographer,
Location, Date |
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Calvin
Hall,
Palmer, Alaska.
Dec. 31, 2009 |
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#2, #3,
#4, more |
Beautiful
"Blue Moon" partial eclipse just before sunrise over the
Alaska Range. |
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Xiang
Zhan,
Beijing Planetarium, Beijing, China
Dec. 31, 2009 |
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I
took this picture in Beijing Planetarium, Beijing, China.
The umbral magnitude was only 0.0763, but the shadow of
the Earth was bigger than I thought. This picture shows
the maximum eclipse, in 3:22 am of Jan. 1, 2010 in local
time. |
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P-M
Hedén,
Täby, Sweden
Dec. 31, 2009 |
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more |
I
didn´t think I could see the partial lunareclipse because
of snowfall but I was wrong! Even though we had heavy snowfall
we could enjoy the moon. 20mm Sigma and Canon 450D |
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Mohamad
Soltanolkottabi,
Esfahan, Iran
Dec. 31, 2009 |
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I
photographed The partial Lunar eclipse in ancient Naghsh-e-Jahan
square. |
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Tunç
Tezel,
Bursa, Turkey
Dec. 31, 2009 |
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I
observed the partial Lunar eclipse from the rooftop op our
apartment block in Bursa, Turkey. There were very high,
thin clouds and serious turbulence because of southwesterly
winds, which brought warm Mediterranean air. It was 15 degrees
C and I did not need a coat. The clouds intensified the
penumbra's appearance during the eclipse. First is the souvenir
shot of the eclipse. This is at maximum, 2122 local time
(GMT+2), through an 8" Meade SCT. Canon EOS 5D at ISO 400,
1/250 seconds. These colourful coronae appeared and disappeared
with the passing high clouds. Using a 24 mm f/1.4 lens at
f/4, and with exposures of 4, 1.6, 0.6, 1/4, 1/10, 1/25,
1/60, 1/160, 1/400 and 1/1000 seconds at ISO 400, I prepared
this heavily processed picture of the scenery at mid-eclipse,
to match how it looked to unaided eyes. |
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Jens
Hackmann,
Weikersheim, southern Germany
Dec. 31, 2009 |
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A
partial moon eclipse occured at 31st december 2009. In southern
Germany, the weather was bad, but sometimes you could have
a glimpse through the clouds. December's blue moon was really
blue because an aureole occured around the moon. Shot with
a Canon dSLR with a zoom lens at a focal length of 400 mm.
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