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Credit & Copyright: Tamas Ladanyi
(TWAN)
Explanation:
Last week, as the Sun set a Full Moon rose over
the springtime landscape of Tihany, Hungary on the northern shores of
Lake Balaton.
As it climbed into the clear sky,
the Moon
just grazed the dark, umbral
shadow of planet Earth in the year's first partial
lunar eclipse.
The partial phase, seen near the top of this frame where the lunar
disk is
darkened along the upper limb, lasted for less than 27 minutes.
Composited from consecutive exposures, the picture
presents the scene's range of natural colors and subtle shading
apparent to the eye.
At next week's New Moon, the season's celestial
shadow play will continue with an annular
solar eclipse,
the path of
annularity tracking
through northern Australia and the central Pacific.
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