Once In A Red Moon, In Our Backyard

August 28, 2007 and we were treated to a most wonderful evening show. For around 45 minutes, the moon became red as it passed through the Earth's shadow.

This photograph was taken from my back lawn in competition with Adelaide's night sky.

Total lunar eclipses come in groups; usually we can observe two or three during a period of a year or so followed by a few years without any.

Lunar eclipses are visible from the entire night-time hemisphere of our planet. Because of this they are more frequently observed and seem to be numerous. They are, however, three to five times less frequent than their spectacular solar eclipse counterpart.

Until the next post, take care out there and keep staring into the heavens ( if that's what you do! ) ...Robert

Photo: Robert Rath EOS300D 1.6s at f/5.6 ISO1600 300mm