2007-02-04

923. Blocked

Earth's footprint
creeps across the face...
lunar eclipse.

10 comments:

Masago said...

earth's footprint
creeps across the face...
lunar eclipse

Link with 922: Shadow.

[A lunar eclipse occurs at full Moon but only if the Moon passes through some portion of the Earth's shadow. There are usually two or three of them each year and most people either observe only a few in their life or none at all. I probably would be in the "none at all" category except that at University I took an astronomy course and, of course, that year we were on the look out the lunar eclipses.]

Amalendu said...

Nice one Masago...

Pamela said...

I have pictures of a lunar ecplise on my d drive -- from two years? ago.

But the camera doesn't like night pictures.

Borut said...

I nice way of seeing it, quite a tale!:)

floots said...

love that - "earth's footprint"

John McDonald said...

nice one
john

Pat Paulk said...

Earth got caught!!

polona said...

i love this one!

in 2001 there was a total solar eclipse visible from the eastern part of slovenia. in ljubljana a tiny section of the sun remained uncovered but the sight was still spectacular. there was partial eclipse last spring, too.
and i have seen a few lunar eclipses, the last one when i was on holiday in september (even posted a haiku about it)

Masago said...

Amalendu: Thank you.

Pamela: Are you saying the pics didn't turn out?

Borut: Thanks.

Floots: I'm pleased you like that.

John: Thank you, John.

Pat: Ah, yes. I see that. Well done Mr. Paulk!

Polona: Thanks. There was a total eclipse here when I was little boy. I don't remember too much about that event. But we've had a couple of partials here since and everyone got out welder's shields and such. As for your haiku about a lunar eclipse, I now recall that you did that. :-)

Pamela said...

I just looked at them 2004 was the full moon eclipse

The pictures are recognizable
We set the tripod up and the hubby went out about every 5 minutes and snapped a shot. A few turned out.
The mooon has a very red/orange glow