This Morning's Lunar Eclipse

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Unobstructed full moon (3:56 AM); Partially eclipsed (5:13 AM)

Chances are most of Philly missed this morning's lunar eclipse, which began at 4:51 and reached totality at 5:52. As the sky brightened in anticipation of sunrise about a half hour later, the moon completely disappeared, and was in total eclipse when it slipped below the horizon.

070828-2.jpg Philadelphians can catch the next total lunar eclipse, without missing much sleep, on February 20-21 from 8:43 PM to 12:09 AM. Miss that one, and you'll have to wait until the end of 2010.

I'm going back to sleep.

Photos by author, SkyscraperSunset.com.
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By Matt Johnson in , on August 28, 2007 8:30 AM Comment 6 Likes Likes

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